Prostate Cancer
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Reports Research in Prostate Cancer
Published in Cancer Weekly, July 19th, 2011
2011 JUL 19 -- Data detailed in "Screening for prostate cancer with PSA testing: current status and future directions" have been presented. "The ultimate utility of the serum prostate specific antigen (PSA) assay as a screening test for reducing prostate cancer mortality has been an area of intense controversy since its introduction. PSA testing was not initially envisioned as a screening tool, but as a way to evaluate treatment responses in men with prostate cancer," researchers in Rockville, Maryland report.
"Far in advance of evidence from randomized trials, the rapid and widespread uptake of PSA screening into US practice was initially driven by the...
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