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Thomas A. Stamey

Stanford; first author of the 1987 paper on PSA as a serum marker

Dates: No dates given in the film's sources
Chapters: IX. The Gland That Stands Before

What the film says

Not named in the narration: his 1987 NEJM paper is the 'landmark paper' that proposed PSA as a marker and concluded that neither marker is specific.

Watch 56:20 in the film IX. The Gland That Stands Before

On the timeline

1987: Stamey and colleagues propose PSA as a serum marker for prostate cancer and warn that neither PSA nor acid phosphatase is specific (NEJM). timeline

Sources

Sources

Stamey et al. 1987, Prostate-specific antigen as a serum marker for adenocarcinoma of the prostate (NEJM 317:909-916), Europe PMC abstract Primary