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12/11/07
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Frequent Prostate Screens Fail to Improve Aggressive Cancer Diagnoses
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TUESDAY, Aug. 28 (HealthDay News) -- Being screened for prostate cancer more often does improve disease detection overall, but it doesn't help doctors spot aggressive cancers better, a new study finds.
The researchers looked at more than 17,000 men who had prostate specific antigen (PSA) testing every two years or every four years. Among 4,202 Swedish men screened every two years, the overall incidence of prostate cancer diagnosis over 10 years was 13.14 percent, compared to 8.41 percent among the 13,301 Dutch men who were screened every four years, said the researchers from Erasmus Medical Centre in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. The total number of interval cancers -- those diagnosed based on symptoms during the years between screening tests -- was 31 (0.74 percent) among the Swedish men and 57 (0.43 percent) among the Dutch men. The differences in the interval cancer rates and aggressive interval cancer rates between the two groups were not statistically significant, the study Read the Complete Article Similar content: Gene Variant Tied to More Aggressive Prostate Cancer, in Prostate Cancer Gene Discovery May Improve Pancreatic Cancer Diagnosis, Treatment, in Leukemia Prostate Cancer Gene Also Raises Colon Cancer Risk, in Prostate Cancer Seizure Drug May Be Effective When Others Fail, in Epilepsy Young Children Fail to Gain Weight on Valproate, in Epilepsy |
