PSA Screening Recommendations Periodic prostate cancer screening is recommended for some males. With that said, the public health recommendations vary due in part to uncertainties as to whether the benefits of screening outweigh the risks of overdiagnosis and overtreatment. Because of this, three leading...
More attention to prognosis is needed when making screening PSA recommendations to elderly men. Most screening guidelines do not recommend prostate-specific antigen (PSA) screening in elderly men with limited life expectancies because potential harms of screening, which occur immediately, outweigh ...
This is relevant to emphasize since the recent recommendations endorse the stratifi- cation of PCa risk according to individual tPSA values and age, aiming to offer biopsy to patients at increased risk of high-grade disease [5, 14–16]. Accordingly, recent studies are developing PSA-based ...
Participating men randomized to the intervention underwent PSA testing. Those with a PSA level of 3.0 ng/mL or higher underwent additional testing for high-grade prostate cancer with a 4-kallikrein panel risk score. Those wi...
Prostate-Specific Antigen Testing in Men Aged 40–64 Years: Impact of Publication of Clinical Trials We assessed the impact of the publication of trials and changes in recommendations on the rates of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) screening in men aged 40... JS Goodwin,A Tan,J Elizabeth,.....
Current recommendations for delaying renal transplantation after localized prostate cancer treatment: are they still appropriate? Since the advent of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) testing, most men diagnosed with prostate cancer (PC) have localized disease, which is curable with sur... P Fernando,Se...
The U.S. Task Force recommendations against screening caused some confusion, and in response, a special panel of experts from the American Society of Clinical Oncology this month issued its own opinion. The ASCO panel decided that for men with a life expectancy of less than 10 years, general...
" said Dr. Manish Vira, System Chief of Urology at Northwell Health Cancer Institute. However, recommendations for screening do not apply if a patient develops symptoms. "If a patient comes in with urinary symptoms, blood in the urine, pelvic pain... Now, we're not talking about scr...
This was followed by a New York Times mention that the American Cancer Society is taking such reviews seriously and is preparing a careful revision of their recommendations for screening. Here’s a great quote from that article, as well as a revealing graph from the article: ...
National Cancer Instititute. 2012. http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/detection/PSA. Accessed Jan 23 2015. American Cancer Society recommendations for prostate cancer early detection. American Cancer Society. 2012. http://www.cancer.org/cancer/prostatecancer/moreinformation/prostatecancerearly...