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Medical Writings |4 December 2001

Prostate Cancer Screening

Roger Luckmann, MD, MPH

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  • Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts.

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Structured abstracts of information on newly published books, computer programs, selected Web sites, and other material are provided in this portion of Medical Writings. Not all items submitted by publishers are abstracted, but a listing of almost all material received can be found in the advertising pages of each issue. “Order phone” numbers can be used to place orders directly with publishers.
Thompson IM, Resnick MI, Klein EA, eds. 336 pages. Totowa, NJ: Humana Pr; 2001. $99.50. ISBN 0896039013. Order phone 973-256-1699.
Field of medicine: Preventive medicine and oncology.
Audience: Primary care physicians, patients, and health policymakers.
Purpose: To provide a detailed, balanced discussion of key issues related to prostate cancer screening as an aid to individual and organizational screening decisions.
Content: Review of screening and diagnostic methods for prostate cancer (prostate-specific antigen [PSA], transrectal ultrasound [TRUS], and others), epidemiology of prostate cancer, summary of selected studies on screening effectiveness, commentaries for and against screening, presentation of prostate cancer risk index, and related software.
Highlights: The chapters on natural history of treated and untreated prostate cancer offer balanced, comprehensive, and useful summaries. The chapter on prostate cancer risk assessment and the related CD-ROM are useful resources for determining cancer risk on the basis of age, risk factors, and results of PSA testing and digital rectal examination.
Limitations: Overall, this book adds little to the existing literature on prostate cancer screening. The chapters on epidemiology and risk factors lack tables and graphs and do not synthesize or summarize the data presented....
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Luckmann R. Prostate Cancer Screening. Ann Intern Med. 2001;135:1018. doi: 10.7326/0003-4819-135-11-200112040-00029

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Published: Ann Intern Med. 2001;135(11):1018.

DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-135-11-200112040-00029

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