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. 2023 May 17:381:e071082.
doi: 10.1136/bmj-2022-071082.

Current policies on early detection of prostate cancer create overdiagnosis and inequity with minimal benefit

Andrew Vickers  1 , Frank O'Brien  2 , Francesco Montorsi  3 , David Galvin  4 , Ola Bratt  5 , Sigrid Carlsson  6   5   7 , James Wf Catto  8 , Agne Krilaviciute  9 , Michael Philbin  10 , Peter Albers  9   11
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Current policies on early detection of prostate cancer create overdiagnosis and inequity with minimal benefit

Andrew Vickers et al. BMJ. .
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Competing interests: We have read and understood BMJ policy on declaration of interests and declare the following: AV is a co-inventor of the 4kscore, a commercial test for predicting prostate biopsy outcome. He receives royalties from sales of the test. He owns stock options in Opko, which offers the test. JC has received reimbursement for consultancy from Astra Zeneca, Ferring, Roche, and Janssen; speaker fees from BMS, MSD, Janssen, Astellas, Nucleix and Roche; honoraria for membership of advisory boards for Ferring, Roche, Gilead, Photocure, BMS, QED therapeutics and Janssen; and research funding from Roche. Provenance and peer review: Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.

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