The purpose of this study is to investigate if a new blood test looking at PSA and a group of PSA related proteins in a patient's blood can indicate which men after surgery with a rising PSA could benefit from treatment, and/or indicate which men are at higher risk for recurrence before initial treatment is given.
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
200
Venous blood will be collected in an EDTA Vacutainer tubeup to 10 mL and will be immediately put on ice. This sample may be drawn as a stand-alone blood draw. Samples will be centrifuged at 1900g (3000-3200 RPM) for 15 Minutes and the serum aliquoted into freezer vials and stored at -80°C until analysis. In addition patients who have not received treatment for biochemical recurrence after their first draw are eligible for subsequent draws to determine the reproducibility of the test over time.
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
New York, New York, United States
profile of a panel of kallikrein related serine proteases in the blood
of patients that present with biochemical recurrence after radical prostatectomy.
Time frame: 2 years
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