Mortality Results from a Randomized Prostate-Cancer Screening Trial

Andriole, G.; Crawford, E.; Grubb, R.; Buys, S.; Chia, D.; Church, T.; Fouad, M.; Gelmann, E.; Kvale, P.; Reding, D.; Weissfeld, J.; Yokochi, L.; O'Brien, B.; Clapp, J.; M. Rathmell, Joshua; Riley, T.; Hayes, R.; S. Kramer, Barnett; Izmirlian, G.; Miller, A.; Pinsky, P.; Prorok, P.; Gohagan, J.; Berg, C.

doi:10.1056/NEJMoa0810696

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Mortality Results from a Randomized Prostate-Cancer Screening Trial

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Authors:

G. Andriole

E. Crawford

R. Grubb

Abstract

BACKGROUND The effect of screening with prostate-specific–antigen (PSA) testing and digital rectal examination on the rate of death from prostate cancer is unknown. This is the first report from the Prostate, Lung, Colorectal, and Ovarian (PLCO) Cancer Screening Trial on prostate-cancer mortality. M...

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Medicine

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