Urinary excretion of acid phosphatase

Abstract

The rate of excretion of urinary acid phosphatase has been studied in four healthy young adult males, ten patients with benign prostatic hypertrophy, seven patients with carcinoma of the prostate, nine healthy women, and 13 women with carcinoma of the breast. Young men excrete up to six times more urinary acid phosphatase than elderly men or women of various ages. In both carcinoma of the prostate and carcinoma of the breast there was a decrease in the excretion of urinary acid phosphatase, in spite of a raised serum acid phosphatase. © 1954, British Medical Journal Publishing Group. All rights reserved.