Screening and Prostate-Cancer Mortality in a Randomized European Study

H. Schröder, Fritz; Hugosson, Jonas; J. Roobol, Monique; L.J. Tammela, Teuvo; Ciatto, Stefano; Nelen, Vera; Kwiatkowski, Maciej; Lujan, Marcos; Lilja, Hans; Zappa, Marco; Denis, Louis; Recker, Franz; Berenguer, Antonio; Määttänen, Liisa; H. Bangma, Chris; Aus, Gunnar; Villers, Arnauld; Rebillard, Xavier; van der Kwast, Theodorus; G. Blijenberg, B.; M. Moss, Sue; J. de Koning, Harry; Auvinen, Anssi

doi:10.1056/nejmoa0810084

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Screening and Prostate-Cancer Mortality in a Randomized European Study

Published in New England Journal of Medicine • Mar 18, 2009

Authors:

Fritz H. Schröder

Jonas Hugosson

Monique J. Roobol

Abstract

BACKGROUND: The European Randomized Study of Screening for Prostate Cancer was initiated in the early 1990s to evaluate the effect of screening with prostate-specific-antigen (PSA) testing on death rates from prostate cancer. METHODS: We identified 182,000 men between the ages of 50 and 74 years thr...

Subject

Medicine

Prostate cancer

Prostate-specific antigen

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