Prostate Cancer Screening: Facts, Statistics, and Interpretation in Response to the US Preventive Services Task Force Review | Zendy

Sigrid Carlsson | Zendy; Andrew J. Vickers | Zendy; Monique J. Roobol | Zendy; James A. Eastham | Zendy; Peter T. Scardino | Zendy; Hans Lilja | Zendy; Jonas Hugosson | Zendy

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Prostate Cancer Screening: Facts, Statistics, and Interpretation in Response to the US Preventive Services Task Force Review

Author(s) -

Sigrid Carlsson,

Andrew J. Vickers,

Monique J. Roobol,

James A. Eastham,

Peter T. Scardino,

Hans Lilja,

Jonas Hugosson

Publication year - 2012

Publication title -

journal of clinical oncology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 10.482

H-Index - 548

eISSN - 1527-7755

pISSN - 0732-183X

DOI - 10.1200/jco.2011.40.4327

Subject(s) - medicine , task force , prostate cancer , interpretation (philosophy) , statistics , cancer , mathematics , computer science , public administration , political science , programming language

Recently, the US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) published a review of the evidence for screening for prostate cancer1 and made a clear recommendation against screening. By giving a grade of “D” in the recommendation statement that was based on this review, the USPSTF concluded that “there is moderate or high certainty that this service has no net benefit or that the harms outweigh the benefits.” 2(p3)

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