Tag: screening

  • Organ-confined disease more common in screen-detected prostate cancer

    Source: MedWire News Prostate cancers detected by screening have a higher rate of organ-confined disease and a lower rate of extracapsular extension and positive surgical margins than non-screen-detected cancers, say researchers. The widespread use of prostate cancer screening had led to stage migration, with more cancers detected at a lower stage, which has led to…

  • A Step Backward: The ACPM Recommendations on Prostate Cancer Screening

    Medscape article summarizing PSA recommendations: The most aggressive screening protocol is from the NCCN. NCCN guidelines start from the premise that the patient has made a decision to seek early prostate cancer detection. They recommend beginning screening at age 40. The baseline PSA level, race, and family history are then used to determine the subsequent…

  • Screening for prostate cancer

    The controversy over screening for prostate cancer will continue. clipped from www.medscape.com Information is not adequate to recommend screening men for prostate cancer with digital rectal examination or measurement of prostate-specific antigen (PSA), according to a position statement by the American College of Preventive Medicine (ACPM) published in the February issue of the American Journal…

  • European study shows that prostate cancer screening leads to less advanced prostate cancer

    UroToday – Prostate Cancer Screening Decreases the Absolute Risk of Being Diagnosed with Advanced Prostate Cancer—Results from a Prospective, Population-Based Randomized Controlled Trial Between the years1995 and 2004, 1,252 cases of CaP were diagnosed; 810 in the screening arm and 442 in the control arm. Men randomized to active screening had a 1.83-fold increased risk…

  • Prostate Cancer: Is PSA Screening effective

    There were 2 articles summarized from the EAU 2007 conference on Urotoday. They seemed to be conflicting, with one saying that delaying therapy did not seem to hurt many people and the other concluding that screening helped. UroToday – EAU 2007 – Session on Prostate Cancer Screening: Dr. Pelzer, Innsbruck presented data that the pathologic…

  • Lowering PSA and PSA velocity: Are we doing the best thing

    screening prostate biopsy