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. 2019 Jan;65(1):39-41.
doi: 10.1373/clinchem.2018.287094. Epub 2018 Oct 1.

Redesigning Prostate Cancer Screening Strategies to Reduce Overdiagnosis

Andrew J Vickers  1
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Redesigning Prostate Cancer Screening Strategies to Reduce Overdiagnosis

Andrew J Vickers. Clin Chem. 2019 Jan.
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Conflict of interest statement

Conflict of interest

Andrew J. Vickers is named on a patent for a statistical method to detect prostate cancer. The test has been commercialized as 4Kscore® by OPKO Health. AV receives royalties from sales of the test. AV has stock options in OPKO Health, and participates on their Advisory Board.

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