Decreasing trend in prostate cancer with high serum prostate-specific antigen levels detected at first prostate-specific antigen-based population screening in Japan

Decreasing trend in prostate cancer with high serum prostate-specific antigen levels detected at first prostate-specific antigen-based population screening in Japan

To clarify the recent trends in prostate-specific antigen (PSA) distribution in men in Japan, we analyzed the PSA distributions of men undergoing PSA-based population screening. We summarized the annual individual data of PSA-based population screening in Kanazawa, Japan, from 2000 to 2011, and anal...

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Main Authors: Yasuhide Kitagawa, Kazuaki Machioka, Hiroshi Yaegashi, Kazufumi Nakashima, Mitsuo Ofude, Kouji Izumi, Satoru Ueno, Yoshifumi Kadono, Hiroyuki Konaka, Atsushi Mizokami, Mikio Namiki
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications 2014-12-01
Series:Asian Journal of Andrology
Subjects:
age-specific prostate-specific antigen reference range; prostate cancer; prostate-specific antigen-based population screening; serum prostate-specific antigen distribution
Online Access:http://www.ajandrology.com/article.asp?issn=1008-682X;year=2014;volume=16;issue=6;spage=833;epage=837;aulast=Kitagawa

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