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Prostate cancer and PSA screening
1Urology Unit, Peter MacCallum Cancer Institute, Victoria.
Australian Family Physician
|September 25, 1999
Abstract
Background:
Each year over 12,000 men are diagnosed with prostate cancer in Australia and there is an increasing need to keep up with a reasonable knowledge of the disease for day to day patient management.
Objective:
To summarise the main issues in prostate cancer screening including the methods of diagnosis, treatment and follow up of patients with prostate cancer in all stages of the disease.
Discussion:
This review is intended as a practical guide to enable general practitioners to play an effective role alongside the other specialists involved in the multidisciplinary management of patients with this common and controversial disease.