PREDICTORS OF PROSTATE CANCER EVALUATED BY RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTICS PARTIAL AREA INDEX: A PROSPECTIVE INSTITUTIONAL STUDY

When high sensitivity is demanded, the ROC partial area index seems to be meaningful for evaluating the discriminative power of potential predictors. In our study none of the evaluated parameters had discriminative power in patients with PSA less than 10 μg/l, while transition zone PSA density and PSA density showed discriminative power in the total group of patients.