Screening for Prostate Cancer: A Review of the ERSPC and PLCO Trials.
Elisabeth
Eckersberger
;
Julia
Finkelstein
;
Helen
Sadri
;
Markus
Margreiter
;
Samir S
Taneja
;
Herbert
Lepor
;
Bob
Djavan
;
(2009)
Screening for Prostate Cancer: A Review of the ERSPC and PLCO Trials.
Reviews in urology, 11 (3).
pp. 127-133.
ISSN 1523-6161
https://researchonline.lshtm.ac.uk/id/eprint/2130245
The advent of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) testing in the early 1980s revolutionized the diagnosis of prostate cancer. As a result of PSA testing, there has been a surge in the number of prostate cancer diagnoses. This review examines the results of 2 recent landmark trials that studied the effect of screening on prostate cancer mortality: the European Randomized Study of Screening for Prostate Cancer (ERSPC) and the US-based Prostate, Lung, Colorectal, and Ovarian (PLCO) Cancer Screening Trial.
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