ArticleThe Journal of family practice2011
PURLs: PSA testing: when it's useful, when it's not.
Article in The Journal of family practice, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
8 citing papers in PubMed.
- Pairing physician education with patient activation to improve shared decisions in prostate cancer screening: a cluster randomized controlled trial.Annals of family medicineTrial
- Mitochondrial Alterations in Prostate Cancer: Roles in Pathobiology and Racial Disparities.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Review
- Liquid biopsies: the future of cancer early detection.Journal of translational medicine · 2023Review
- Proteolyzed Variant of IgG with Free C-Terminal Lysine as a Biomarker of Prostate Cancer.Biology · 2021Article
- Plasma metabolomic profile in prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia and prostate cancer and associations with the prostate-specific antigen and the Gleason score.Metabolomics : Official journal of the Metabolomic Society · 2020Article
- The pros and cons of screening.Nature · 2020Article
- Knowledge, attitudes, and practices towards prostate cancer screening amongst men living in the southern Italian peninsula: the Prevention and Research in Oncology (PRO) non-profit Foundation experience.World journal of urology · 2017Article
- The emerging role of extracellular vesicles as biomarkers for urogenital cancers.Nature reviews. Urology · 2014Review
Corrections and comments
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Authors and funding
5 authors.
Funding
Abstract
Routine PSA testing leads to more diagnoses of prostate cancer, but does not save lives. At least one group of men, however, may reap a small benefit.
Identifiers
21647471PMC3183963What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.