Incidence and mortality of incidental prostate cancer: a Swedish register-based study

In a national register-based study of incidence trends and mortality of incidental prostate cancer in Sweden, we found that a significant proportion (26.6%) of affected men diagnosed died of their disease, which challenges earlier descriptions of incidental prostate cancer as a non-lethal disease.

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Autores principales: Andrèn, O, Garmo, H, Mucci, L, Andersson, S-O, Johansson, J-E, Fall, K
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2009
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Short Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2634678/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19088721
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/sj.bjc.6604834
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author Andrèn, O
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Fall, K
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spelling pubmed-26346782010-01-13 Incidence and mortality of incidental prostate cancer: a Swedish register-based study Andrèn, O Garmo, H Mucci, L Andersson, S-O Johansson, J-E Fall, K Br J Cancer Short Communication In a national register-based study of incidence trends and mortality of incidental prostate cancer in Sweden, we found that a significant proportion (26.6%) of affected men diagnosed died of their disease, which challenges earlier descriptions of incidental prostate cancer as a non-lethal disease. Nature Publishing Group 2009-01-13 2008-12-16 /pmc/articles/PMC2634678/ /pubmed/19088721 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/sj.bjc.6604834 Text en Copyright © 2009 Cancer Research UK 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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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2634678/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/sj.bjc.6604834
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