Inappropriateness of prostate cancer screening by PSA in young Algerian farmers

PSA Screening in Prostate Cancer

Introduction: Prostate cancer is one of the most common cancers in Iranian men. PSA(prostate specific antigen) screening is a controversial issue because PSA screening leads to diagnose of patients with low risk prostate cancer who not only do not benefit from treatment but also suffer from complication caused by treatment. On the other hand, without prostate cancer screening, the rate of meta...

PSA screening for prostate cancer.

Screening of prostate cancer with prostate-specific antigen (PSA) is a highly controversial issue. One part of the controversy is due to the confusion between population screening and early diagnosis, another derives from problems related to the quality of existing screening studies, the results of radical curative treatment for low grade tumors and the complications resulting from treatments t...

PSA Screening for Prostate Cancer.

Narrative: U.S. men have a 16% chance of a prostate cancer diagnosis in their lifetime and a 3% chance of dying from prostate cancer.1 Autopsy studies have shown that up to two-thirds of older men die with asymptomatic prostate cancer. It appears that most men will develop prostate cancer if they live long enough, although it usually does not affect longevity.1 Given the high incidence of prost...

Does PSA screening reduce prostate cancer mortality?

question whether the recent decline in age-standardized prostate cancer mortality rates in Quebec could be attributed to screening with the serum prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test. By comparing the change in the incidence rate of prostate cancer between 1989 and 1993 with the change in the prostate cancer mortality rate between 1995 and 1999 in 15 birth cohorts, and in 15 regions of Quebec, ...

Prostate cancer screening with PSA: "Aequanimitas".