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ArticleCancers2025

EpiSwitch PSE Blood Test Reduces Unnecessary Prostate Biopsies: A Real-World Clinical Utility Study.

Joos Berghausen, Joe Abdo, Ryan Mathis, Ewan Hunter, Alexandre Akoulitchev, Garrett D Pohlman

Abstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Cancers, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Joos BerghausenDepartment of Pharmacology and Physiology, Georgetown University Medical Center, 3900 Reservoir Rd NW, Washington, DC 20057, USA.
Joe AbdoOxford BioDynamics Inc., 7495 New Horizon Way, STE 110, Frederick, MD 21703, USA.
Ryan MathisOxford BioDynamics Inc., 7495 New Horizon Way, STE 110, Frederick, MD 21703, USA.
Ewan HunterOxford BioDynamics PLC, 3140 Rowan Palace, John Smith Drive, Oxford OX4 2WB, UK.
Alexandre AkoulitchevOxford BioDynamics PLC, 3140 Rowan Palace, John Smith Drive, Oxford OX4 2WB, UK.
Garrett D PohlmanKearney Urology Center PC, 123 West 31st St., Kearney, NE 68847, USA.

Funding

Pharmacological Sciences Training Program (PSTP)T32GM142520 · NIGMS · GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY · PI Patrick Alexander Forcelli, Anton Wellstein · 2022 to 2026
$1.3M
NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM142520
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

3D genome conformationbiopsy avoidanceblood-based diagnosticsEpiSwitch PSE assayprecision oncologyprostate cancer detectionreal-world evidence

Identifiers

PMID40647492
PMCPMC12249354

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