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- Title
Is PSA testing still useful?
- Authors
Mitka, Mike
- Abstract
Focuses on the pros and cons of medical screening with the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test. Recommendation of the American Cancer Society on PSA testing; Criticism of PSA screening by Thomas A. Stamey, professor of urology at the Stanford University School of Medicine in California; Idea that there is overscreening and unwarranted removal of prostates in the United States; Ambivalence in treating prostate tumors; Concern of physicians about diagnosing aggressive cancers at the earliest stage; Views of medical professors E. David Crawford, chairman of the Prostate Cancer Education Council, and Peter Carroll, executive director of the Prostate Cancer Foundation report; Data from Stamey's study on radical prostatectomies; The signficance of serum PSA levels; Idea that aggressive treatment is being overused in patients who only need surveillance of their conditions; Effort to determine if PSA screening reduces mortaliy; Outlook for a better screening tool; Benefits of PSA testing.
- Subjects
UNITED States; PROSTATE-specific antigen; MEDICAL screening; PROSTATE cancer; PROSTATE diseases; PROSTATECTOMY; CANCER treatment; COLLEGE teachers; CARROLL, Peter; CRAWFORD, E. David; PHYSICIANS
- Publication
JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association, 2004, Vol 292, Issue 19, p2326
- ISSN
0098-7484
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1001/jama.292.19.2326