Special Clinic for High Risk Prostate Cancer patients

This special clinic at UCSF Medical Center is for patients at high-risk for developing prostate cancer based on family history, African-American ethnicity, an elevated level of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) or a previous prostate biopsy that showed abnormalities such as atpia or prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia (PIN).

When several members of a family have cancer, particularly if diagnosed at a young age, suspicions are raised about the possibility of inherited cancer-causing genes. This is called having a "genetic predisposition" for cancer.