A prostate exam is a screening tool to help your doctor check for signs of prostate cancer. It involves a digital rectal exam (DRE), where a doctor checks for physical changes to your prostate, and a PSA blood test, which measures antigens in your blood that could signal prostate cancer....
Prostate Cancer Screening: What Should You Be Asking
Prostate biopsy.If you havehigh PSA levels or otherreasons to suspect prostate cancer, your doctor may suggest a biopsy. It involves taking tissue samples from your prostate, which are analyzed to find out whether you have cancer. Screening for Prostate Cancer Screening for prostate cancer is con...
The much vaunted test for prostatic cancer, prostate specific antigen, is not sufficiently sensitive or specific to be effective as a diagnostic screening ... S Griffiths - 《Mens Health | Bmj》 被引量: 0发表: 2010年 Costs and effects of prostate cancer screening in Sweden--a 15-year follo...
The prostate is a small gland in males that aids in reproduction. Prostate cancer is one of the most common types of cancer, and when it's detected early, often by a simple blood test, it has the best chance for successful treatment.
Prostate Cancer Screening: What We Know and What We Need to Know. Focuses on a study which evaluated the evidence for recommending the screening of asymptomatic men for prostate cancer with blood test to detect a prostate... Kramer,Barnett,S.,... - 《Annals of Internal Medicine》 被引量:...
PROSTATE cancerPROSTATE-specific antigenU.S. Preventive Services Task ForceMEDICAL screeningEARLY medical interventionThe article presents information on prostate cancer screening. It discusses the potential harms and benefits of prostate cancer screening with serum...
Screening for Prostate Cancer: A Guidance Statement From the Clinical Guidelines Committee of the American College of Physicians. Description: Prostate cancer is an important health problem in men. It rarely causes death in men younger than 50 years; most deaths associated with it occ... Qaseem,...
Based on these studies, it is reasonable to conclude that there is a survival benefit for screening, but it may not extend to older men (>75years) who have undergone prior screening. 展开 关键词: Prostate cancer Screening Prostate-specific antigen Randomized studies ...
Screening is widespread in human medicine, though it is increasingly a subject of controversy and debate.3Large-scale programs in human medicine to promote testing for specific diseases have been widely used, such as prostate-specific antigen (PSA) testing for prostate cancer and mammography for det...