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Draft USPSTF 2017 recommendation on PSA testing — a sea-change?

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Increased evidence that prostate-cancer-specific mortality can be reduced using serum PSA screening, in addition to the increasing role of active surveillance in reducing overtreatment underlies the revised USPSTF recommendation, which now supports selective use of PSA testing. However, this recommendation should not be interpreted as a license to return to the unthinking use of PSA testing of men between 50 to 70 years of age.

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  1. Theodorus H. van der Kwast is at the Department of Pathology, Princess Margaret Cancer Center, Toronto General Hospital, 200 Elizabeth Street, Toronto M5G 2C4, Canada.,

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  2. Monique J. Roobol is at the Department of Urology, Erasmus Medical Center, Wytemaweg 80, 3015 CN Rotterdam, Netherlands.,

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Van der Kwast, T., Roobol, M. Draft USPSTF 2017 recommendation on PSA testing — a sea-change?. Nat Rev Urol 14, 457–458 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrurol.2017.89

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