A controversy bloomed as experts tried to determine if the benefits of annual prostate cancer screenings outweigh the risks. A main issue identified is that the PSA blood test cannot differentiate between benign (noncancerous) and malignant (cancerous) tissue. A high PSA test result could ...
Much of this literature is not always unconvincing. Do we have evidence that something fundamental has changed in our knowledge about PCa screening? PCa is the second most frequently diagnosed type of cancer worldwide and the sixth leading cause of cancer deaths in men. In Germany, it is the...
Benefits and Risks of Cancer Screening Are Not Always Clear, Experts Say University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, USA. T Parkerpope 被引量: 1发表: 2009年 A Systematic Assessment of Benefits and Risks to Guide Breast Cancer Screening Decisions IMPORTANCE: Breast cancer is the ...
A systematic assessment of benefits and risks to guide breast cancer screening decisions. JAMA. 2014;311(13):1327-1335. Topic: Preventive Medicine See More About Breast Cancer Oncology Patient Information Women's Health JAMA Patient Information Cancer Screening, Prevention, Control ...
The potential benefits of such screening must, of course, be weighed against the risks and costs. The risk that the ionizing radiation exposure from medical diagnostic tests will cause cancer appears to be small but not zero. Ionizing radiation causes DNA double-strand breaks that are repaired ...
Importance Patients need to consider both benefits and harms of breast cancer screening. Objective To systematically synthesize available evidence on the association of mammographic screening and clinical breast examination (CBE) at different ages and intervals with breast cancer mortality, overdiagnosis, fal...
REPORT British Journal of Cancer (2013) 108, 2205–2240 | doi: 10.1038/bjc.2013.177 The benefits and harms of breast cancer screening: an independent review A report jointly commissioned by Cancer Research UK and the Department of Health (England) October 2012. M G Marmot*,1, D G Altman2...
With the percentage of people over age 65 expected to nearly double by 2050 it s important to weigh the health benefits of screening against the risks and costs of routine testing. In many cases screening can lead to additional examinations and operations to remove cancer which can cause side...
In both studies, information about potential screening outcomes was provided in 1 of 3 formats: text, a fact box, or a visual aid (e.g., mortality with and without screening and rate of overdiagnosis). We modeled the interplay of comprehension, perceived risks and benefits, intention to ...
Communicating to citizens the benefits, harms and risks of preventive interventions Why do people continue to overestimate the benefits of breast screening and PSA screening for prostate cancer? Where do they get their information? What ar... H Thornton - 《Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health...