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ArticleAdvances in laboratory medicine2023

A new approach to prostate cancer screening.

Xavier Filella, Álvaro González, Josep Maria Augé, Antonio Barco, Rosa Carbonell, María Jesús Gaspar, Antonio Martínez-Peinado, Clara Pérez Barrios, Marta Sánchez-Carbayo, José Diego Santotoribio and 2 more

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Article in Advances in laboratory medicine, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

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

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors.

Xavier FilellaService of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, CDB, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, IDIBAPS, Barcelona, Spain.
Álvaro GonzálezService of Biochemistry, Clínica Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain.
Josep Maria AugéService of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, CDB, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, IDIBAPS, Barcelona, Spain.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6383-7308
Antonio BarcoService of Clinical Biochemistry, Miguel Servet University Hospital, Zaragoza, Spain.
Rosa CarbonellLaboratory of Biochemistry, San Juan University Hospital, San Juan, Alicante, Spain.
María Jesús GasparService of Clinical Analysis, Hospital Universitario Príncipe de Asturias, Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain.
Antonio Martínez-PeinadoClinical Analsysis Management Unit, Section of Molecular Genetics, Reina Sofía University Hospital, Córdoba, Spain.
Clara Pérez BarriosLaboratory, Puerta de Hierro University Hospital, Majadahonda, Madrid, Spain.
Marta Sánchez-CarbayoDepartment of Health Sciences, Universidad Pontificia, Salamanca, Spain.
José Diego SantotoribioLaboratory, Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocio, Seville, Spain.
Jaume TrapéLaboratory, Althaia Xarxa Assitencial Universitària, Manresa, Spain.
Comisión de Marcadores Biológicos de Cáncer, SEQCML

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Prostate cancer screening based on prostate-specific antigen (PSA) testing has been a matter of controversy. Although screening for prostate cancer was effective in reducing mortality, it resulted in overdiagnosis, which translated into unnecessary treatments and numerous adverse effects. As a result, recommendations from scientific societies became increasingly restrictive. In the recent years, new approaches to prostate cancer screening have been proposed. These new approaches are aimed at solving the controversy between widespread screening vs. no screening, and reconsidering PSA testing as a screening tool with a good benefit/risk balance. In this context, the European Association of Urology submitted a proposal to the European Commission for prostate cancer screening to be performed as a function of baseline PSA concentrations. The European Commission recently recommended the implementation of organized prostate cancer screening programs for men aged ≤70 years based on PSA values in combination with follow-up magnetic resonance imaging.

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prostate cancerPSAscreening

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PMID38075179
PMCPMC10701489

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