Overdiagnosis: The determination of PSA levels for prostatic cancer, a big Public Health disaster
PSA determination, discovered in 1970 by Ablin multiplied by almost 3 the number of prostate cancers diagnosed in the years that followed. However, this effect was not accompanied by an increase in mortality secondary to prostate cancer indicating that there was an effect of overdiagnosis, that is,...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Asociación Para el Progreso de la Biomedicina
2019-10-01
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| Series: | Jounal of Negative and No Positive Results |
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| Online Access: | https://www.jonnpr.com/PDF/3251.pdf |