[HTML][HTML] Screening for prostate cancer: a review of the ERSPC and PLCO trials

E Eckersberger, J Finkelstein, H Sadri… - Reviews in …, 2009 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The advent of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) testing in the early 1980s revolutionized the
diagnosis of prostate cancer. As a result of PSA testing, there has been a surge in the …

Prostate cancer screening: what we have learned from the PLCO and ERSPC trials

J La Rochelle, CL Amling - Current urology reports, 2010 - Springer
Two large randomized trials on prostate cancer screening have recently reported their 10-
year results with somewhat differing conclusions. The Prostate, Lung, Colorectal, and …

Screening for prostate cancer (PC)—an update on recent findings of the European Randomized Study of Screening for Prostate Cancer (ERSPC)

FH Schröder - Urologic Oncology: Seminars and Original …, 2008 - Elsevier
Introduction for screening for prostate cancer as a healthcare policy is desirable provided its
effectiveness can be shown in terms of decreasing prostate cancer mortality at an …

Prostate cancer screening in the Prostate, Lung, Colorectal and Ovarian cancer screening trial: update on findings from the initial four rounds of screening in a …

RL Grubb III, PF Pinsky, RT Greenlee… - BJU …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
OBJECTIVE To describe the results of the first four rounds (T0‐T3) of prostate cancer
screening in the Prostate, Lung, Colorectal and Ovarian (PLCO) cancer screening trial …

Screening for prostate cancer

RM Hoffman - New England Journal of Medicine, 2011 - Mass Medical Soc
Key Clinical Points Prostate-Cancer Screening The introduction of prostate-specific antigen
(PSA) testing has nearly doubled the lifetime risk of receiving a diagnosis of prostate cancer …

Prostate cancer screening

ED Cook, AC Nelson - Current oncology reports, 2011 - Springer
Prostate cancer is the most common cancer and the second leading cause of cancer-related
deaths in American men. Although the use of the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test for …

Is screening for prostate cancer with prostate specific antigen an appropriate public health measure?

PC Albertsen - Acta oncologica, 2005 - Taylor & Francis
Screening and treatment for prostate cancer is controversial. In the absence of randomized
trials, several prominent medical organizations in the United States and Europe have …

Screening for prostate cancer: results of the Rotterdam section of the European randomized study of screening for prostate cancer

MJ Roobol, R Kranse, CH Bangma, AG van Leenders… - European urology, 2013 - Elsevier
Background Evidence from randomized trials on the effects of screening for prostate cancer
(PCa) on disease-specific mortality accumulates slowly with increasing follow-up. Objective …

Screening for prostate cancer

TH Lee, PW Kantoff… - New England Journal of …, 2009 - Mass Medical Soc
In two large randomized trials, researchers examined the effect of annual prostate-specific–
antigen (PSA) screening on the rate of death from prostate cancer and found that it was …

Large‐scale randomized prostate cancer screening trials: program performances in the European Randomized Screening for Prostate Cancer trial and the Prostate …

HJ de Koning, A Auvinen… - … Journal of Cancer, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
Two large‐scale randomized screening trials, the Prostate, Lung, Colorectal and Ovary
(PLCO) cancer trial in the USA and the European Randomized Screening for Prostate …