TY - JOUR JF - URMIAMJ JO - Studies in Medical Sciences VL - 19 IS - 2 PY - 2008 Y1 - 2008/10/01 TI - THE EFFECT OF INTRAVESICAL BCG THERAPY ON SERUM PSA LEVEL TT - بررسی اثرات BCGتراپی داخل مثانه ای بر سطح سرمی PSA N2 -   MR Mohammadi Fallah [1] , MD S Jafari [2] , MD M Alizadeh [3] , MD MR Mokhtari [4] , MD    Received: 14 April, 2007 Accepted: 1 May, 2008   ABSTRACT:   Background & Aims: Prostate cancer is the most common male malignancy. Today, patients are screened with PSA and DRE, and in the presence of high PSA level (>4 ng/ml) or abnormal DRE finding, TRUS guided biopsy of prostate is performed for definitive diagnosis. Since multiple factors cause serum PSA to rise such as prostate massage, biopsy, inflammation we evaluated the effect of intravesical BCG therapy on serum PSA level.   Material & Methods: 66 patients with a history of superficial bladder tumor who had primary normal PSA level ( SP - 155 EP - 157 AD - KW - Therapy KW - PSA KW - TRUS guided biopsy KW - Prostate UR - http://umj.umsu.ac.ir/article-1-291-en.html ER -