Prostate Cancer Screening (PDQ®)–Health Professional Version

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Changes to This Summary (06/23/2017)

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Description of the Evidence

Added text about an extended follow-up analysis for mortality, with median follow-up of almost 15 years, that showed prostate cancer mortality rates of 47.8 per 100,000 person-years in the intervention group and 46.0 per 100,000 person-years in the usual-care group, given a rate ratio of 1.04. An analysis of nonprotocol screening during the postscreening phase of the trial showed that 78.7% of men in the usual-care group and 80.3% of men in the intervention group had received a prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test within the past 3 years, and that 85.9% of men in the usual-care group and 98.9% of men in the intervention group had ever had a PSA test (cited Pinsky et al. as reference 36).

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