Screening and prostate-cancer mortality in a randomized European study.
BACKGROUND: The European Randomized Study of Screening for Prostate Cancer was initiated in the early 1990s to evaluate the effect of screening with prostate-specific-antigen (PSA) testing on death rates from prostate cancer. METHODS: We identified 182,000 men between the ages of 50 and 74 years thr...
Main Authors: | Schröder, F, Hugosson, J, Roobol, M, Tammela, T, Ciatto, S, Nelen, V, Kwiatkowski, M, Lujan, M, Lilja, H, Zappa, M, Denis, L, Recker, F, Berenguer, A, Määttänen, L, Bangma, C, Aus, G, Villers, A, Rebillard, X, van der Kwast, T, Blijenberg, BG, Moss, S, de Koning, H, Auvinen, A |
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Format: | Journal article |
Language: | English |
Published: |
2009
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