Efficacy of prostate-specific antigen screening: Use of regression discontinuity in the PLCO cancer screening trial

JAMA Oncology

Volumn 1, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 984-986

  Shoag, Jonathan ^a   Halpern, Joshua ^a   Eisner, Brian ^b   Lee, Richard ^a   Mittal, Sameer ^a   Barbieri, Christopher E ^a   Shoag, Daniel ^c  

^a NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KALLIKREIN; KALLIKREIN-RELATED PEPTIDASE 3, HUMAN; PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

BIOPSY; BLOOD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGITAL RECTAL EXAMINATION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; MALE; MORTALITY; PATHOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROCEDURES; PROGNOSIS; PROSTATE TUMOR; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TIME;

BIOPSY; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DIGITAL RECTAL EXAMINATION; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; HUMANS; KALLIKREINS; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; PROSTATE-SPECIFIC ANTIGEN; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84965091453     PISSN: 23742437     EISSN: 23742445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jamaoncol.2015.2993     Document Type: Letter

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