Prostate-cancer screening in an afro-caribbean population: The Tobago prostate cancer screening study

BJU International

Volumn 105, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 745-746

  Patrick, Alan ^a  

^a Tobago Prostate Cancer Study   (Trinidad and Tobago)

Author keywords

Afro Caribbean; Prostate cancer; Screening; Tobago

Indexed keywords

PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

BONE DENSITY; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER HORMONE THERAPY; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER STAGING; HUMAN; NOTE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE BIOPSY; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; TRANSRECTAL ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO;

EID: 77649240524     PISSN: 14644096     EISSN: 1464410X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1464-410X.2010.09222.x     Document Type: Note

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