Economic Evaluation of Prostate Cancer Screening Test as a National Cancer Screening Program in South Korea
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Economic evaluation of prostate cancer screening test as a national cancer screening program in South Korea.
BACKGROUND Prostate cancer is rapidly increasing in Korea and professional societies have requested adding prostate specific antigen (PSA) testing to the National Cancer Screening Program (NCSP), but this started a controversy in Korea and neutral evidence on this issue is required more than ever. The purpose of this study was to provide economic evidence to the decision makers of the NCSP. M...
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عنوان ژورنال: Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1513-7368
DOI: 10.7314/apjcp.2014.15.8.3383