Dr. Barry Dworkin

Early results of urine-based prostate cancer screening test leads to next step of trying it out on larger populations to confirm if it meets screening test criteria. University press release was used as the news source.

Health Headlines Commentary for June 26, 2019

Source:

Prostate cancer: New urine test hope

Reference:

A four‐group urine risk classifier for predicting outcomes in patients with prostate cancer

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