Diagnosing prostate cancer: What GPs need to know

Australian Family Physician

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 345-347

  Frydenberg, Mark ^a,b   Wijesinha, Sanjiva ^b  

^a MONASH MEDICAL CENTRE   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN; TUMOR MARKER;

ADULT; AGED; AUSTRALIA; BLOOD; BONE TUMOR; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DIGITAL RECTAL EXAMINATION; GENERAL PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; MALE; MASS SCREENING; METASTASIS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDLE BIOPSY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PALPATION; PATHOLOGY; PROSTATE TUMOR; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ADULT; AGED; AUSTRALIA; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; BONE NEOPLASMS; DIGITAL RECTAL EXAMINATION; FAMILY PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PALPATION; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PROSTATE-SPECIFIC ANTIGEN; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; RISK ASSESSMENT; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 34347225531     PISSN: 03008495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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