Prostate Specific Antigen Testing in Men Older Than 75 Years in the United States
Authors:
- 1 August 2006
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Journal of Urology
- Vol. 176 (2) , 511-514
Abstract
Purpose: Although there is general agreement that men older than 75 years are unlikely to benefit from prostate specific antigen testing, patient reported testing rates in these patients exceed 30%...Keywords
This publication has 15 references indexed in Scilit:
- Cancer Statistics, 2005CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, 2005
- Prostate-Specific Antigen Screening in Elderly MenJNCI: Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 2003
- Screening Men for Prostate and Colorectal Cancer in the United StatesJAMA, 2003
- Prostate-specific antigen testing in black and white men: an analysis of medicare claims from 1991–1998Urology, 2002
- American Cancer Society Guidelines for the Early Detection of CancerCA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, 2002
- Demographics and Health-Related Factors of Men Receiving Prostate-Specific Antigen Screening in UtahPreventive Medicine, 2001
- Design of the prostate, lung, colorectal and ovarian (PLCO) cancer screening trialControlled Clinical Trials, 2000
- Appropriateness of Prostate-Specific Antigen TestingAmerican Journal of Clinical Pathology, 2000
- Prostate Cancer Screening and Beliefs about Treatment Efficacy: A National Survey of Primary Care Physicians and UrologistsThe American Journal of Medicine, 1998
- Reducing Mortality from Colorectal Cancer by Screening for Fecal Occult BloodNew England Journal of Medicine, 1993