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SUBMITTER: Schroder FH
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6027585 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Schröder Fritz H FH Hugosson Jonas J Roobol Monique J MJ Tammela Teuvo L J TL Ciatto Stefano S Nelen Vera V Kwiatkowski Maciej M Lujan Marcos M Lilja Hans H Zappa Marco M Denis Louis J LJ Recker Franz F Páez Alvaro A Määttänen Liisa L Bangma Chris H CH Aus Gunnar G Carlsson Sigrid S Villers Arnauld A Rebillard Xavier X van der Kwast Theodorus T Kujala Paula M PM Blijenberg Bert G BG Stenman Ulf-Hakan UH Huber Andreas A Taari Kimmo K Hakama Matti M Moss Sue M SM de Koning Harry J HJ Auvinen Anssi A
The New England journal of medicine 20120301 11
<h4>Background</h4>Several trials evaluating the effect of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) testing on prostate-cancer mortality have shown conflicting results. We updated prostate-cancer mortality in the European Randomized Study of Screening for Prostate Cancer with 2 additional years of follow-up.<h4>Methods</h4>The study involved 182,160 men between the ages of 50 and 74 years at entry, with a predefined core age group of 162,388 men 55 to 69 years of age. The trial was conducted in eight Eur ...[more]