Early diagnosis of prostate cancer in the Western Cape

South African Medical Journal

Volumn 91, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 679-684

  Heyns, C F ^a   Naude A M ^a   Visser, A J ^a   Marais, D C ^a   Stopforth, H B ^a   Nyarko, J K ^a   Stellmacher, G A ^a  

^a STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; ASIAN; ASSAY; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CAUCASIAN; CLINICAL FEATURE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EUROPE; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTESTINE EXAMINATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASS MEDIUM; METASTASIS; NEGRO; ONCOLOGY; PATIENT COUNSELING; PATIENT REFERRAL; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PROGNOSIS; PROSTATE BIOPSY; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; PUBLICATION; RACE DIFFERENCE; SOUTH AFRICA; SYMPTOM; TELECOMMUNICATION; TRANSRECTAL ULTRASONOGRAPHY; TREATMENT INDICATION;

AGED; BIOPSY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PALPATION; PROSTATE; PROSTATE-SPECIFIC ANTIGEN; PROSTATIC HYPERPLASIA; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 0034867805     PISSN: 02569574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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