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Article: Findings from R.M. Hoffman et al in prostate cancer reported.
- Article from:
- Cancer Weekly
- Article date:
- November 10, 2009
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"Guidelines recommend informing patients about the risks and benefits of prostate cancer screening. We evaluated the medical decision-making process for prostate-specific antigen (PSA) testing," scientists writing in the journal Archives of Internal Medicine report (see also Prostate Cancer).
"We conducted a telephone survey of a randomly selected national sample of 3010 English-speaking US adults 40 years and older. Included in the survey were 375 men who had either undergone or discussed (with health care providers [HCPs]) PSA testing in the previous 2 years. We asked subjects about socio-demographic characteristics, prostate cancer screening discussion ...
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