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- Title
Impacts of the COVID‐19 pandemic on early detection of prostate cancer in Australia.
- Authors
Ip, Christopher C.K.; Kealey, Joshua; Davis, Ian D.; Sengupta, Shomik
- Abstract
Healthcare utilization has changed as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Analysis by age found that PSA tests for the age groups 45-54 and 55-64 years in 2020 declined to 91% and 94% of rates of PSA tests in 2018 and to 62% and 72% of rates of testing in 2012, respectively. JAMA 2018; 319: 1901 - 13 7 Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia and Cancer Council Australia PSA Testing Guidelines Expert Advisory Panel Clinical practice guidelines PSA testing and early management of test-detected prostate cancer, 2015.
- Subjects
AUSTRALIA; PROSTATE cancer; EARLY detection of cancer; FIDUCIAL markers (Imaging systems); COVID-19 pandemic; PROSTATECTOMY; RADICAL prostatectomy
- Publication
BJU International, 2021, Vol 128, p6
- ISSN
1464-4096
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/bju.15631