Screening for prostate cancer: early detection or overdetection?

A sophisticated reading of the randomized trial evidence suggests that, although screening for prostate cancer with prostate-specific antigen (PSA) can reduce cancer-specific mortality, it does so at considerable cost in terms of the number of men who need to be screened, biopsied, and treated to pr...

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Main Authors: Vickers, A, Roobol, M, Lilja, H
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 2012