PSA testing for prostate cancer: an online survey of the views and reported practice of general practitioners in the UK. BMC Fam Pract 2005;6:24J. Brett, E. Watson, P. Hewitson et al., "PSA testing for prostate cancer: an online survey of the views and reported practice of General ...
Online questionnaire survey, with a sample of 421 GPs randomly selected from a database of GPs across the UK.95% (400/421) of GPs responded. 76% of GPs reported having performed a PSA test for an asymptomatic man at least once in the previous three month
p pBackground/p pThe role of Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA) testing in the early detection of prostate cancer is controversial. Current UK policy stipulates that any man who wishes to have a PSA test should have access to the test, provided he has been given full information about the ben...
PSA testingis used to identify theearly stagesof prostate cancer. It is currently one of the few widely used tests for prostate cancer available. The other examination used to detect this cancer is a digital rectal examination (DRE), in which a doctor inserts a gloved finger into therectum(...
J Constantinou Institute of Urology and Nephrology, University College London, London, UK M R Feneley Corresponding author Correspondence to M R Feneley. Rights and permissions Reprints and permissions About this article Cite this article Constantinou, J., Feneley, M. PSA testing: an evolving relat...
Prostate cancer survival rates have tripled in the last 40 years in the UK, most likely because of PSA testing. As well as offering you peace of mind, prostate cancer screening allows you to check for early-stage prostate cancer that may exhibit no symptoms, improving the chances of curing...
Prostate-specific antigen (PSA) testing of men in UK general practice: a 10-year longitudinal cohort study. BMJ Open. 2017;7(10):e017729.PubMedGoogle Scholar 43. Schröder FH, Hugosson J, Carlsson S, et al. Screening for prostate cancer decreases the risk of developing metastatic ...
Amy Rylance, Assistant Director of Health Improvement at Prostate Cancer UK, said, "Leaving men in the dark about their risk means too many men are getting diagnosed with incurable prostate cancer, and this disproportionately affects Black men and men living in deprived areas. ...
When testing for prostate cancer, as many as 75% of men with a raised prostate-specific antigen (PSA) have a benign biopsy result. Little is known about the psychological effect of this result for these men. In all, 330 men participating in the prostate
Understanding the chemistry underlying the interaction of pharmacological chaperones with their target proteins will facilitate the design of more efficient drugs with greater therapeutic potential.doi:10.5694/mja18.00324Brooks DougOlver Ian NEsterman Adrian JThe Medical journal of Australia...