Empirical estimates of prostate cancer overdiagnosis by age and prostate-specific antigen

BACKGROUND: Prostate cancer screening depends on a careful balance of benefits, in terms of reduced prostate cancer mortality, and harms, in terms of overdiagnosis and overtreatment. We aimed to estimate the effect on overdiagnosis of restricting prostate specific antigen (PSA) testing by age and ba...

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Autori principali: Vickers, Andrew J, Sjoberg, Daniel D, Ulmert, David, Vertosick, Emily, Roobol, Monique J, Thompson, Ian, Heijnsdijk, Eveline AM, De Koning, Harry, Atoria-Swartz, Coral, Scardino, Peter T, Lilja, Hans
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Lingua:Inglês
Pubblicazione: BioMed Central 2014
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Accesso online:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3922189/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24512643
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1741-7015-12-26
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