Survey of the rate of PSA testing in general practice

The use of prostate specific antigen (PSA) test could have a large impact on the incidence of prostate cancer in the UK. Over a period of 1 year (1999), 3.5% out of 160 015 men aged > 45 on a GP database, who had no previous record of prostate cancer, had a PSA test. Of the tested men, 21.3% had...

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Autores principales: Melia, J, Moss, S
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2001
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Regular Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2364127/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11531246
http://dx.doi.org/10.1054/bjoc.2001.1962
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description The use of prostate specific antigen (PSA) test could have a large impact on the incidence of prostate cancer in the UK. Over a period of 1 year (1999), 3.5% out of 160 015 men aged > 45 on a GP database, who had no previous record of prostate cancer, had a PSA test. Of the tested men, 21.3% had a PSA > 4 ng/ml. Future data need to distinguish between men with and without symptoms. © 2001 Cancer Research Campaign http://www.bjcancer.com
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spelling pubmed-23641272009-09-10 Survey of the rate of PSA testing in general practice Melia, J Moss, S Br J Cancer Regular Article The use of prostate specific antigen (PSA) test could have a large impact on the incidence of prostate cancer in the UK. Over a period of 1 year (1999), 3.5% out of 160 015 men aged > 45 on a GP database, who had no previous record of prostate cancer, had a PSA test. Of the tested men, 21.3% had a PSA > 4 ng/ml. Future data need to distinguish between men with and without symptoms. © 2001 Cancer Research Campaign http://www.bjcancer.com Nature Publishing Group 2001-09 /pmc/articles/PMC2364127/ /pubmed/11531246 http://dx.doi.org/10.1054/bjoc.2001.1962 Text en Copyright © 2001 Cancer Research Campaign https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material.If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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