- ►annals.org [PDF] RM Hoffman - Annals of internal medicine, 2006 - Am Coll Physicians T he American Urological Association and the American Cancer Society endorse prostate cancer
screening with annual prostate-specific antigen (PSA) testing and digital rectal examination
(1, 2). Screening is recommended be- ginning at age 50 years for average-risk men who ... Cited by 27 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 4 versions
- ►annals.org [PDF] WJ Catalona, S Loeb, M Han - Annals of internal medicine, 2006 - Am Coll Physicians Prostate cancer screening is controversial, and major professional associations offer differing
screening guidelines. The authors ad- dress 3 key issues about prostate cancer screening:
1) the prostate- specific antigen (PSA) criteria to recommend a prostate biopsy, 2) the ... Cited by 34 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 4 versions
CD Scales, LH Curtis, RD Norris, KA Schulman, DM … - The Journal of urology, 2006 - Elsevier An estimated 42.3 million prostate specific antigen tests were performed from 1999 to 2002, of
which 5.91 million (14.0%) were performed in men older than 75 years. The population based
testing rate was 6.1% in patients 40 to 49-year-old, 26.0% in patients 50 to 75-year-old ... Cited by 19 - Related articles - All 15 versions
LC Walter, D Bertenthal, K Lindquist, BR Konety - Jama, 2006 - Am Med Assoc You are seeing this message because your Web browser does not support basic Web
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BP Kerfoot, EF Holmberg, EV Lawler, E Krupat, … - Archives of internal …, 2007 - Am Med Assoc Results The mean ± SD percentage of inappropriate tests by health care provider was 19.3%
± 15.0%, with 18.4% ± 14.9% in patients older than 75 years and 0.8% ± 3.0% in patients younger
than 40 years. Practitioners who were urology specialists, male, infrequent PSA test ... Cited by 9 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 4 versions
BR Konety, VJ Sharp, M Verma, RD Williams - Urology, 2006 - Elsevier The survey yielded a response rate of 32% (997 respondents). Of the respondents, 96% of primary
care physicians and 97% of urologists preferred to stop PSA-based prostate cancer screening
by age 80. This was compatible with our institutional data that indicated a PSA testing rate ... Cited by 11 - Related articles - All 10 versions
FF SA - International Journal of Cancer - interscience.wiley.com Both benign and malignant prostate diseases elevate total prostate-specific antigen (tPSA), and
the incidence of benign disease increases markedly with age. There is evidence, however, that
free-to-total PSA ratio (%fPSA) and human kallikrein 2 (hK2) more closely reflect the ... Cited by 15 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 3 versions
- ►oxfordjournals.org [PDF] G Lu-Yao, TA Stukel, SL Yao - JNCI Journal of the National …, 2003 - jnci.oxfordjournals.org Although the efficacy of prostate- specific antigen (PSA) screening for prostate cancer has not
been estab- lished, it is widely used. However, de- spite the overall controversy regard- ing PSA
screening, there has been general agreement that elderly men (ie, those aged 75 years ... Cited by 45 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 7 versions
L Balducci, C Beghé - Clinics in geriatric medicine, 2002 - Elsevier Cancer is second only to cardiovascular diseases as the leading cause of death for persons
aged 65 and older [1, 2 and 3]. Although the mortality from cardiovascular diseases has been
declining in the last 10 years, the mortality from cancer has remained stable [1]. If the ... Cited by 16 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 9 versions
[CITATION] Cancer prevention and screening across the aging continuum: difficult decisions …
