[Age peculiarities in prostate cancer detection based on the prostate-specific antigen and its alterations control].

Data on epidemiology of a prostate cancer are presented in article, high prevalence and body height of a case rate cause relevance of researches on this oncopathology. It is shown that the number augmentation for the first time of the taped cases is bound including to the program of a screening of inspection of men by determination of level of prostates-specific antigen (PSA). Modern diagnostic methods of identification of modifications of PSA, possessing larger sensitivity and specificity concerning a prostate cancer are lit. The attention to change of level of PSA depending on age is focused that needs to be considered at diagnostics of malignant neoplasms of a prostate.