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Prostate Cancer Deaths: Annual Screen Not Superior to Usual Care
Prostate Cancer Deaths: Annual Screen Not Superior to Usual Care
D Mahoney
20120006
2012 Jan 6
Elsevier Global Medical News
Prostate Cancer Deaths: Annual Screen Not Superior to Usual Care
Elsevier Global Medical News. 2012 Jan 6, D Mahoney
After 13 years of follow-up, men who underwent annual screening for prostate cancer were no less likely to die of prostate cancer than were men who received usual care and opportunistic screening.Cumulative mortality rates from prostate cancer differed by a statistically insignificant rate of 0.3 deaths per 10,000 person years in the intervention and usual-care arms of the Prostate, Lung, Colorectal, and Ovarian (PLCO) screening trial, published online Jan. 6 in the Journal of the National Cancer...