This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access. Similar content being viewed by others Estimating the rate of overdiagnosis with prostate cancer screening: evidence from the Finnish component of the European Randomized Study of Screening for Prostate Cancer Ar...
What is a screening test? 来自 Semantic Scholar 喜欢 0 阅读量: 66 作者: J Concato 摘要: Objective To demonstrate the importance of accurately identifying clinical distinctions of subjects in observational studies of screening. Design Simulated case-control studies Setting The West Haven Veterans ...
But sometimes prostate cancer is fast-growing, and a real threat. So, what to do? You may be familiar with a screening blood test called PSA, or prostate specific antigen. There are limitations to using PSA testing to screen for prostate cancer, since this protein is made by both BPH (...
The use of the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test for cancer screening is controversial.At two different Veterans Administration facilities, outpatients completed a 15-item questionnaire about their knowledge of the PSA test two weeks after receiving a screening test.Demographic characteristics of the...
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...
Screening trends in “at-risk” families for prostate cancer Objective: Prostate cancer is the second most common malignancy in men worldwide. Aberrant epigenetic events such as DNA hypermethylation and altered histo... L Cormier,R Azzouzi,M Gundesli,... - 《European Urology Supplements》 被引量...
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....
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 ...
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Dr. Sartor, whose practice is focused on prostate cancer, stresses the importance of screening for the disease with aprostate-specific antigen test, or PSA. "I think the No. 1 issue of being diagnosed withadvanced prostate canceris not getting a PSA," he says. ...