Overdiagnosis of prostate cancer

Journal of the National Cancer Institute - Monographs

Volumn , Issue 45, 2012, Pages 146-151

  Sandhu, Gurdarshan S ^a   Andriole, Gerald L ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN; STEROID 5ALPHA REDUCTASE INHIBITOR;

ANTIGEN DETECTION; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PREVENTION; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; HISTORY; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE BIOPSY; PROSTATE CANCER; UNITED STATES; BLOOD; DIGITAL RECTAL EXAMINATION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; MALE; PATHOLOGY; PROSTATE; PROSTATE TUMOR; SURVIVOR; WATCHFUL WAITING;

5-ALPHA REDUCTASE INHIBITORS; DIGITAL RECTAL EXAMINATION; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; HUMANS; MALE; PROSTATE; PROSTATE-SPECIFIC ANTIGEN; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; SURVIVORS; WATCHFUL WAITING;

EID: 84871811037     PISSN: 10526773     EISSN: 17456614     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1093/jncimonographs/lgs031     Document Type: Article

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