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ArticleThe New England journal of medicine2020

Reconsidering the Trade-offs of Prostate Cancer Screening.

Jonathan E Shoag, Yaw A Nyame, Roman Gulati, Ruth Etzioni, Jim C Hu

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Article in The New England journal of medicine, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 47 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

47 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  4. A guide to cancer screening.Nature reviews. Clinical oncology · 2026
    Review
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  6. Prostate Cancer: Etiology, Diagnosis, and Treatment.Serican journal of medicine · 2026
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  9. Prostate cancer screening.Asian journal of urology · 2025
    Review
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  11. Prostate Cancer Mortality Trend in Montenegro 1990-2018.Iranian journal of public health · 2025
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  12. Understanding Barriers to Engagement With a Prostate Cancer Research and Genetic Risk Service Among UK Men of Black African or Black Caribbean Ancestry.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2025
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  15. Metformin in overcoming enzalutamide resistance in castration-resistant prostate cancer.The Journal of pharmacology and experimental therapeutics · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Jonathan E ShoagFrom the Department of Urology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York (J.E.S., J.C.H.); and the Department of Urology, University of Washington (Y.A.N.), and the Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (Y.A.N., R.G., R.E.) - both in Seattle.
Yaw A NyameFrom the Department of Urology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York (J.E.S., J.C.H.); and the Department of Urology, University of Washington (Y.A.N.), and the Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (Y.A.N., R.G., R.E.) - both in Seattle.
Roman GulatiFrom the Department of Urology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York (J.E.S., J.C.H.); and the Department of Urology, University of Washington (Y.A.N.), and the Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (Y.A.N., R.G., R.E.) - both in Seattle.ORCID 0000-0002-7592-6567
Ruth EtzioniFrom the Department of Urology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York (J.E.S., J.C.H.); and the Department of Urology, University of Washington (Y.A.N.), and the Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (Y.A.N., R.G., R.E.) - both in Seattle.ORCID 0000-0002-9164-6370
Jim C HuFrom the Department of Urology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York (J.E.S., J.C.H.); and the Department of Urology, University of Washington (Y.A.N.), and the Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (Y.A.N., R.G., R.E.) - both in Seattle.

Funding

Modeling to Improve Prostate Cancer Outcomes Across Diverse PopulationsU01CA199338 · NCI · FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER · PI DE KONING, HARRY J, ETZIONI, RUTH D · 2015 to 2019
$5.2M
Statistical modeling to support population and translational cancer researchR50CA221836 · NCI · FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER · PI Roman Gulati · 2017 to 2026
$2.0M
NCI NIH HHS R50 CA221836NCI NIH HHS U01 CA199338
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Early Detection of CancerFollow-Up StudiesHumansMalePostoperative ComplicationsProstate-Specific AntigenProstatic NeoplasmsRandomized Controlled Trials as TopicProstate-Specific Antigen

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PMID32558473
PMCPMC7491201

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