Towards personalized prostate cancer screening

The value of the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) in prostate cancer (PCa) screening is controversial. Contradictory results have been reported in the literature as to whether PSA-based screening reduces mortality. Also, some of the studies published are methodologically flawed. However, evidence con...

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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:40338db0fb904fad9d9df60386ac12cf2021-12-05T14:10:38ZTowards personalized prostate cancer screening2628-491X10.1515/almed-2019-0027https://doaj.org/article/40338db0fb904fad9d9df60386ac12cf2020-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1515/almed-2019-0027https://doaj.org/toc/2628-491XThe value of the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) in prostate cancer (PCa) screening is controversial. Contradictory results have been reported in the literature as to whether PSA-based screening reduces mortality. Also, some of the studies published are methodologically flawed. However, evidence consistently demonstrates that screening programs results in the identification of patients with indolent prostatic tumors which rate has increased.Filella XavierDe Gruyterarticleprostate-specific antigen (psa)screeningprostate cancerphi4kscoreMedical technologyR855-855.5ENESAdvances in Laboratory Medicine, Vol 1, Iss 1, Pp 1941-53 (2020)
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topic prostate-specific antigen (psa)
screening
prostate cancer
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spellingShingle prostate-specific antigen (psa)
screening
prostate cancer
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Filella Xavier
Towards personalized prostate cancer screening
description The value of the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) in prostate cancer (PCa) screening is controversial. Contradictory results have been reported in the literature as to whether PSA-based screening reduces mortality. Also, some of the studies published are methodologically flawed. However, evidence consistently demonstrates that screening programs results in the identification of patients with indolent prostatic tumors which rate has increased.
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