Ces Urol 2008, 12(3):173-185 | DOI: 10.48095/cccu2008018
Numerous attempts towards improving diagnostic, management and prognosis of the patients with prostate cancer by molecular staging have been fruitless so far. The reason is relatively low specifity of standard used tumor marker ? PSA (Prostatic Specific Antigen). No single molecular parameter is routinely analyzed in prostate cancer tissue. Powerful DNA array and proteomics methods allow the systematic analysis of virtually all genes of a cancer on the DNA, RNA, and protein level. In future, one of the major scientific challenges will be the validation of several potential biomarkers in large enough and clinically well characterized patient cohorts. As a promising gene based tumor marker seems to be detection of mRNA of prostate cancer specific DD3 gene (Diferential Display Code 3 gene).
Received: July 15, 2008; Accepted: October 20, 2008; Published: June 1, 2008