Recent incidence and surgery trends for prostate cancer: Towards an attenuation of overdiagnosis and overtreatment?

BACKGROUND:Screening for prostate cancer is frequent in high-income countries, including Switzerland. Notably due to overdiagnosis and overtreatment, various organisations have recently recommended against routine screening, potentially having an impact on incidence, mortality, and surgery rates. Ou...

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Main Authors: Sabrina Jegerlehner, Arnaud Chiolero, Drahomir Aujesky, Nicolas Rodondi, Simon Germann, Isabelle Konzelmann, Jean-Luc Bulliard, NICER Working Group
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0210434