New York, NY - Researchers at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center have found that change in PSA levels over time — known as PSA velocity — is a poor predictor of prostate cancer and may lead to many unnecessary biopsies. The new study of more than 5,000 men was published online ...
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Eastham JA, Scardino PT, et al.: Long-term prediction of prostate cancer: prostate-specific antigen (PSA) velocity is predictive but does not improve the predictive accuracy of a single PSA measurement 15 years or more before cancer diagnosis in a large, representative, unscreened population. ...
MP86-14 DOES A SECOND CONFIRMATORY PSA ABOVE 4.0NG/ML LEAD TO THE DIAGNOSIS OF MORE CLINICALLY SIGNIFICANT PROSTATE CANCER?1. Establish independent SWOG operations at the Portland VA Medical Center. 2. Establish processes that enable site to maintain accrual goals for site through life of project...
Identify current recommendations for routine screening for prostate cancer. Disclosures As an organization accredited by the ACCME, Medscape, LLC requires everyone who is in a position to control the content of an education activity to disclose all relevant financial relationships with any commercial int...
Meta-analysis finds screening for prostate cancer with PSA does not reduce prostate cancer-related or all-cause mortality but results likely due to heterogeneity - the two highest quality studies identified do find prostate cancer-related mortality reductions. Evid Based Med 2011;16(1):20-1....
Roobol Monique J,Carlsson Sigrid,Hugosson Jonas.Meta-analysis finds screening for prostate cancer with PSA does not reduce prostate cancer-related or all-cause mortality but results likely due to heterogeneity - the two highest quality studies identified do find prostate cancer-related mortality reduct...
Eastham JA, Scardino PT, et al.: Long-term prediction of prostate cancer: prostate-specific antigen (PSA) velocity is predictive but does not improve the predictive accuracy of a single PSA measurement 15 years or more before cancer diagnosis in a large, representative, unscreened population. ...
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In conclusion, an effect of PSA testing on the natural history of prostate cancer is not yet fact, as determined by a randomised controlled trial, but it is certainly more than fiction.doi:10.1016/S1569-9056(02)00047-7John AndersonEuropean Urology Supplements...