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New urine test shows promising results in detecting, classifying risk for prostate cancer

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A newly published article in BJU International has described a way to test post-DRE urine samples for the presence of specific types of ribonucleic acid (RNA) and use these data to detect and classify risk levels for more and less aggressive forms of prostate cancer.

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An additional trial which I enrolled in 2004 which still continues, was a Urine sample to test for such things. I don’t know the upshot.

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