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Screening for Prostate Cancer

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Prostate cancer screening is a fait acomplis in the United States at this time. Regardless of whether it is justifiable from a scientific standpoint, it is occurring. The evidence for this statement can be found in the incidence rates of prostate cancer before and after the advent of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) screening. Figure 1 graphically demonstrates this phenomenon. PSA became widely available in 1987–1988, and screening for prostate cancer increased dramatically shortly thereafter.

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Thompson, I.M., Foley, J. (2000). Screening for Prostate Cancer. In: Klein, E.A. (eds) Management of Prostate Cancer. Current Clinical Urology. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59259-714-7_4

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