Description: Update of the 2008 US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF)
recommendation statement on screening for prostate cancer. Methods: The USPSTF …

Background: Prostate cancer is the most common nonskin cancer in men in the United
States, and prostate cancer screening has increased in recent years. In 2002, the US …

Recently, the US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) published a review of the
evidence for screening for prostate cancer1 and made a clear recommendation against …

Description: Update of the 2002 US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF)
recommendation statement about screening for prostate cancer. Methods: The USPSTF …

Importance In the United States, the lifetime risk of being diagnosed with prostate cancer is
approximately 11%, and the lifetime risk of dying of prostate cancer is 2.5%. The median age …

The US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) has issued a draft recommendation
statement on screening for prostate cancer, based on an updated systematic evidence …

Chinese translation Description: Prostate cancer is an important health problem in men. It
rarely causes death in men younger than 50 years; most deaths associated with it occur in …

This commentary discusses the USPSTF recommendation against PSA-based screening for
men of any age. The commentators believe that the Task Force has underestimated the …

In the United States, most men over the age of 50 years have had a prostate-specific antigen
(PSA) test, 1 despite the absence of evidence from large, randomized trials of a net benefit …

How often should we repeat either one? What is the patient's pretest probability of cancer?
What is the chance that a PSA test plus a biopsy will find cancer, if it's present? If cancer is …