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Reliance on PSA Triggers May Lead to Overtreatment of Prostate Cancer
Reliance on PSA Triggers May Lead to Overtreatment of Prostate Cancer
S London
20100215
2010 Mar 15
Elsevier Global Medical News
Reliance on PSA Triggers May Lead to Overtreatment of Prostate Cancer
Elsevier Global Medical News. 2010 Mar 15, S London
SAN FRANCISCO (EGMN) - Men with prostate cancer who are on active surveillance may be overtreated if their clinicians rely strictly on certain commonly used prostate-specific antigen triggers for starting treatment, Dr. Andrew Loblaw told attendees of a symposium on genitourinary cancers. In a cohort of 315 such men who had no evidence of disease progression, the percentage in whom treatment would have been falsely triggered ranged widely - from 14% to 84% - depending on which of nine PSA measures...