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Making the grade: The newest US Preventive Services Task Force prostate cancer screening recommendation
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Making the grade: The newest US Preventive Services Task Force prostate cancer screening recommendation

Richard M. Hoffman, Robert J. Volk and Andrew M. D. Wolf
Cancer, Vol.123(20), pp.3875-3878
10/15/2017
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.30941
PMCID: PMC5756476
PMID: 28832967
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https://doi.org/10.1002/cncr.30941View
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Abstract

The US Preventive Services Task Force recently issued a draft guideline supporting individualized decision making for prostate cancer screening. Although the authors believe this guideline appropriately reflects changing evidence regarding the benefits and harms of screening, they raise concerns about achieving decision making, interpreting active surveillance data, and initiating screening for African American men.

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