Prostate cancer mortality in areas with high and low prostate cancer incidence.

Summary, in English

The effect of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) screening on prostate cancer mortality remains debated, despite evidence from randomized trials. We investigated the association between prostate cancer incidence, reflecting uptake of PSA testing, and prostate cancer mortality.

• Author: Pär Stattin; Sigrid Carlsson; Benny Holmström; Andrew Vickers; Jonas Hugosson; Hans Lilja; Håkan Jonsson
• Department/s: Clinical Chemistry, Malmö; EpiHealth: Epidemiology for Health
• Publishing year: 2014
• Language: English
• Pages: 007-007
• Publication/Series: Journal of the National Cancer Institute
• Volume: 106
• Issue: 3
• Full text: - 12 kB; Download statistics
• Links: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24610909?dopt=Abstract; http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jnci/dju007
• Document type: Journal article
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Topic: Cancer and Oncology
• Status: Published
• Research group: Clinical Chemistry, Malmö
• ISBN/ISSN/Other: ISSN: 1460-2105