Methods of prostate cancer diagnosis and prostate tumour analysis

摘要

The invention relates to a method of diagnosing prostate cancer in a subject, which method comprises determining the concentration of a relevant biochemical marker in the periprostatic tissue or lymph nodes of said subject, also to methods which categorise a prostate tumour and/or identify a prostate tumour which has extended beyond the prostatic capsule; as well as to apparatus which is suitable for use in such methods.