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The diagnostic test accuracy of rectal examination for prostate cancer diagnosis in symptomatic patients: a systematic review

BACKGROUND: Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men in the UK. NICE guidelines on recognition and referral of suspected cancer, recommend performing digital rectal examination (DRE) on patients with urinary symptoms and urgently referring if the prostate feels malignant. However, this is ba...

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Autores principales: Jones, Daniel, Friend, Charlotte, Dreher, Andreas, Allgar, Victoria, Macleod, Una
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5985061/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29859531
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12875-018-0765-y