[PDF] Top 20 Results of prostate cancer screening in non-symptomatic men

... é in- teressante frisar que, embora seja importante que médicos generalistas também façam o EFP, o núme- ro de tumores diagnosticados por eles será prova- velmente menor que por urologistas os quais apre- sentam ... See full document

... DRE in conjunction with a PSA level above ...between cancer and non-cancer, meaning that the PSA test is not specific for cancer, but only for prostatic ...disadvantage of PSA ... See full document

... incidence of PCa was ...The results are presented in ...parallel in literature in large series where sev- eral PSA measures were assessed, such as those by Han et ...frequency of ... See full document

... interested in all kind of feedback (including criti- cisms) and we mainly used open- ended questions and ...diversity of men’s background in terms of educational level and income was a ... See full document

... The results of this trial showed that during a median follow up of 14 years, PCa incidence was ...12.7% in the screening group and 8.2% in the control group; hazard ratio ... See full document

... Background: Screening with prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test for prostate cancer is considered a preference sensitive decision; meaning it does not only depend on what is best from a ... See full document

... uniformity of the α-particle irradiation for an experimental cell target at a distance from the source of ...2.15). In addition, any non-uniformities resulting from edge effects should be ... See full document

... quality of life of cancer patients over the last four weeks, in terms of functional (physical, functional, emotional, social and cognitive), symptomatic (fatigue, pain and ... See full document

... placed in the final decision aid (before the values clarification method) was a new feature of our version, not present in the original decision aid and most men thought it was useful ... See full document

... to cancer screening recom- mendations, these associations with screening mammography were not seen in our cohort of hospitalized ...history of breast cancer are more ... See full document

... beginning of a process of further examinations and treatments for which the person must be alert and ...prepared. In this process, there is more chance of harms than benefits, and the patient ... See full document

... Lung Cancer Screening Trial (NLST), 18 a large prospective randomized trial funded by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), to determine whether screening with low-dose CT, as compared with ... See full document

... Lung Cancer Screening Trial (NLST), 18 a large prospective randomized trial funded by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), to determine whether screening with low-dose CT, as compared with ... See full document

... the screening of prostate cancer in the ...study of 181 men aged ≥60 years who were residents of a small city in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, ... See full document

... Prostate cancer (PCa) is the most common malignancy found in men affecting one in six and is the second leading cause of cancer-related death in ...the ... See full document

... element in the genome to trigger various signal transduction pathways; indings that have changed the understanding of castration ...resistance. Non-genomic signalling, via MAP kinases/ERK and PI3K ... See full document

... result of a hemodilu- tion effect caused by increased plasma volume ...validity of PSA tests in prostate cancer screening, resulting in a high false positive rate ... See full document

... profile of cancer patients, attended by a support institution in the north of Minas ...analysis of 449 medical records of patients diagnosed with cancer attended by a ... See full document

... Prostate cancer is one of the most frequent cancers among ...Nevertheless, screening for prostate cancer remains controversial, because it implies a trade-off between risks (high ... See full document

... representations of men about prostate cancer and their masculinity against the disease, and analyze its implications for ...approach of case study which takes as input a conceptual ... See full document