Skip to main content

Thank you for visiting nature.com. You are using a browser version with limited support for CSS. To obtain the best experience, we recommend you use a more up to date browser (or turn off compatibility mode in Internet Explorer). In the meantime, to ensure continued support, we are displaying the site without styles and JavaScript.

  • Practice Point
  • Published:

What is the optimum PSA screening interval after an initial negative test?

Nature Clinical Practice Urology volume 5, pages 134–135 (2008)Cite this article

boxed-textRoobol MJ et al. (2007) Interval cancers in prostate cancer screening: comparing 2- and 4-year screening intervals in the European Randomized Study of Screening for Prostate Cancer, Gothenburg and Rotterdam. J Natl Cancer Inst 99: 1296–1303

Background

This is a preview of subscription content, access via your institution

Access options

Buy this article

  • Purchase on Springer Link
  • Instant access to full article PDF
Buy now

Prices may be subject to local taxes which are calculated during checkout

References

  1. Crawford ED et al. (2006) Prostate specific antigen changes as related to the initial prostate specific antigen: data from the prostate, lung, colorectal and ovarian cancer screening trial. J Urol 175: 1286–1290

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  2. D'Amico AV et al. (2004) Preoperative PSA velocity and the risk of death from prostate cancer after radical prostatectomy. N Engl J Med 351: 125–135

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  3. Cohen YC et al. (2007) Detection bias due to the effect of finasteride on prostate volume: a modeling approach for analysis of the Prostate Cancer Prevention Trial. J Natl Cancer Inst 99: 1366–1374

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  4. National Comprehensive Cancer Network Prostate Cancer Early Detection Panel (online 10 May 2007) National Comprehensive Cancer Network guidelines for early detection of prostate cancer v.2.2007 [http://www.nccn.org/professionals/physician_gls/PDF/prostate_detection.pdf] (accessed 12 December 2007)

Download references

Acknowledgements

The synopsis was written by Rachel Murphy, Associate Editor, Nature Clinical Practice.

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Associate Professor of Urology and Head of the Department of Urology, HG Sim is a Consultant Urologist and C Cheng is a Senior Consultant Urologist, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore.,

    Hong Gee Sim & Christopher Cheng

Authors
  1. Hong Gee Sim
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Christopher Cheng
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Hong Gee Sim.

Ethics declarations

Competing interests

The authors declare no competing financial interests.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Sim, H., Cheng, C. What is the optimum PSA screening interval after an initial negative test?. Nat Rev Urol 5, 134–135 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/ncpuro1038

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Accepted:

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/ncpuro1038

Search

Advanced search

Quick links

Nature Briefing

Sign up for the Nature Briefing newsletter — what matters in science, free to your inbox daily.

Get the most important science stories of the day, free in your inbox. Sign up for Nature Briefing