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An estimate of prostate cancer prevalence in Italy
Carlo La Vecchia1, Paolo Bruzzi, Adriano Decarli
1Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri, Milan, Italy. garimoldi@marionegri.it
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|December 19, 2002
Abstract:
Estimates of the total number of men with a previous diagnosis of prostate cancer in Italy range from 55,000 to 135,000. This wide range of variation is largely due to uncertainties on the number of protein-specific antigen-detected, asymptomatic cases. The number of clinically detected cases, including cases with advanced disease, is less subject to uncertainty, with reasonable estimates ranging from 45,000 to 60,000.