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Informed Decision Making About Prostate Cancer Screening

Authors: Michael E. O'Callaghan, BSc(Hons), PhD, Ganessan Kichenadasse, MBBS, Sina Vatandoust, MD, and Kim Moretti, MBBSAuthor, Article, & Disclosure Information
Publication: Annals of Internal Medicine
Volume 162, Number 6
https://doi.org/10.7326/L15-5063
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TO THE EDITOR:
One of the key facts that Vickers and colleagues (1) suggest presenting to patients to help them make an informed decision about prostate-specific antigen (PSA) screening is that “only a small proportion of men with prostate cancer die of the disease.” We do not believe that this statement accurately conveys the proportion of deaths attributable to prostate cancer in the context of counseling men considering PSA screening. Prostate cancer is the second most common cause of cancer death in men in Australia, the United States, the United Kingdom, and many countries in the European Union. Several …

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cover image Annals of Internal Medicine
Annals of Internal Medicine
Volume 162 • Number 6 • 17 March 2015
Pages: 457

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Published online: 17 March 2015
Published in issue: 17 March 2015

Keywords

  1. Cancer treatment
  2. Conflicts of interest
  3. Death rates
  4. Decision making
  5. Disclosure
  6. Mortality
  7. Population statistics
  8. Prostate cancer
  9. Prostate diseases
  10. Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results

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© 2015 American College of Physicians.

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Michael E. O'Callaghan, BSc(Hons), PhD
From Repatriation General Hospital, Flinders University, and The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.
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Ganessan Kichenadasse, MBBS
From Repatriation General Hospital, Flinders University, and The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.
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Sina Vatandoust, MD
From Repatriation General Hospital, Flinders University, and The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.
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Kim Moretti, MBBS
From Repatriation General Hospital, Flinders University, and The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.
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Disclosures: Authors have disclosed no conflicts of interest. Forms can be viewed at www.acponline.org/authors/icmje/ConflictOf InterestForms.do?msNum=L14-0552.

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