Screening for prostate cancer throwing out the baby with the bathwater

West Indian Medical Journal

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 503-504

  Aiken, W D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

CANCER SCREENING; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; PROSTATE CANCER; NEGRO; NOTE; PROSTATE TUMOR; STATISTICS;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; HUMANS; MALE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84860789152     PISSN: 00433144     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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