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A population-based family study of prostate cancer in an era of prostate-specific antigen testing

Familial aggregation of prostate cancer has been demonstrated in studies conducted in a number of countries prior to the widespread adoption of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) testing for prostate cancer detection. PSA testing leads to over-diagnosis of asymptomatic disease that may not have become clinically significant within a man’s normal lifetime. This increase in the number of asymptomatic men diagnosed might alter the magnitude of familial risk estimates and the importance of a prostate cancer family history. (For complete abstract open document)

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:ADTP/245738
CreatorsStaples, Margaret Patricia
Source SetsAustraliasian Digital Theses Program
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
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