Research Article

A Comparative Performance Analysis of Total PSA, Percentage Free PSA, PSA Velocity, and PSA Density versus the Detection of Primary Circulating Prostate Cells in Predicting Initial Prostate Biopsy Findings in Chilean Men

Table 2

Absolute detection rates of prostate cancer and no cancer according to test.

Free PSAPSA velocityPSA densityTotalCPCTotal
≤15%>15%≥0.75<0.75≥0.15<0.15(+)(−) (+) (−)

Cancer803367466944971610013113
No cancer6212875115601301048622168190
= Chi-squared = 0.001 = 0.001 = 0.001 < 0.0001 < 0.0001