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Editorial
. 2016 Oct 10;34(29):3499-3501.
doi: 10.1200/JCO.2016.67.8938.

Prostate-Specific Antigen Screening: Time to Change the Dominant Forces on the Pendulum

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Prostate-Specific Antigen Screening: Time to Change the Dominant Forces on the Pendulum

Jonathan E Shoag et al. J Clin Oncol. .
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Fig A1.
Fig A1.
Depiction of the increase in prostate-specific antigen (PSA) testing that occurred between the Prostate, Lung, Colorectal, and Ovarian Cancer Screening Trial initial design and recruitment phases (modified from a depiction of men born from 1920 to 1924 in Mariotto AB et al: Cancer 109:1877-1886, 2007).
Fig A2.
Fig A2.
Health Status Questionnaire as it relates to prostate-specific antigen (PSA) screening. Blue shading indicates responses that were counted as testing in the 2009 trial report. All other responses were not counted as testing. (Prostate, Lung, Colorectal, and Ovarian Cancer Screening Trial: Men's Health Status Questionnaire. 2005. https://biometry.nci.nih.gov/app_media/cdas-bioshare/documents/studies/plco/forms/HSM.pdf).

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