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Practice Guideline
. 2010 Oct;17(10):830-8.
doi: 10.1111/j.1442-2042.2010.02613.x.

Updated Japanese Urological Association Guidelines on prostate-specific antigen-based screening for prostate cancer in 2010

Committee for Establishment of the Guidelines on Screening for Prostate Cancer  1 ; Japanese Urological Association
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Practice Guideline

Updated Japanese Urological Association Guidelines on prostate-specific antigen-based screening for prostate cancer in 2010

Committee for Establishment of the Guidelines on Screening for Prostate Cancer et al. Int J Urol. 2010 Oct.

Abstract

The exposure rate of screening for prostate cancer using prostate-specific antigen (PSA) in Japan is still very low compared with that in the USA or western Europe. The mortality rate of prostate cancer will increase in the future and in 2020 it will be 2.8-fold higher than in 2000. Therefore, there is an urgent need to determine the best available countermeasures to decrease the rate of prostate cancer death. PSA screening, which can reduce the risk of death as a result of prostate cancer, should be offered to all men at risk of developing prostate cancer with fact sheets showing updated benefits and drawbacks of screening for prostate cancer.

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