2008 US Preventive Services Task Force recommendations and prostate cancer screening rates

JAMA

Volumn 307, Issue 16, 2012, Pages 1692-1694

  Prasad, Sandip M ^a   Drazer, Michael W ^a   Huo, Dezheng ^a   Hu, Jim C ^b   Eggener, Scott E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANTIGEN DETECTION; CANCER GRADING; CANCER PREVENTION; CANCER SCREENING; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HUMAN; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATE HYPERTROPHY; PROSTATITIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84860122309     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2012.534     Document Type: Letter

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