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Review
. 2005 Feb;95(2):231-7.
doi: 10.1111/j.1464-410X.2005.05324.x.

Prevalence and characteristics of screen-detected prostate carcinomas at low prostate-specific antigen levels: aggressive or insignificant?

Claartje Gosselaar  1 , Monique J Roobol, Fritz H Schröder
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Review

Prevalence and characteristics of screen-detected prostate carcinomas at low prostate-specific antigen levels: aggressive or insignificant?

Claartje Gosselaar et al. BJU Int. 2005 Feb.

Abstract

Screening for prostate cancer at low prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels (<or=4.0 ng/mL) risks detecting clinically insignificant cancers, which are of no threat to the man. In this review we evaluate the prevalence and tumour characteristics of prostate cancer detected at low PSA levels, comparing screening studies, cystoprostatectomy series and autopsy data. The favourable characteristics of tumours detectable at very low PSA levels seem to justify the conclusion that an unknown but sizeable proportion of the cancers found at biopsy are clinically insignificant.

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