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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Main Authors: 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
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: BioMed Central 2014
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Online Access: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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