Questions and Answers

Is the PCA3 Score age-dependent?

Answer by the PCA3 Editorial Board
Prof. Hendrik Van Poppel
Prof. Bertrand Tombal
Prof. Jack Schalken
25/11/2010

At this moment there is no evidence that the Prostate CAncer gene 3 (PCA3) Score is dependent on age. This is also not expected as the PCA3-Score, contrary to prostate specific antigen (PSA), is not affected by the prostate size, and the prostate size increases with age.