[Diagnosis and follow-up of prostatic cancer using an enzyme immunoassay for prostate-specific acid phosphatase].

The clinical application of an enzyme-immunoassay for the determination of the prostate-specific acid phosphatase is reported. By this method 615 plasma probes of patients with prostata adenoma, prostatitis, prostatic cancer and other urological cancer were investigated. Whereas the enzyme-immunoassay showed good correlation with the follow-up of prostatic cancer especially when metastases grow on, the test is not yet sensitive enough to find out early prostatic cancer with reliable accuracy.