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Microarray-based Identification of Individual HERV Loci Expression: Application to Biomarker Discovery in Prostate Cancer
Published on: November 2, 2013
Decision making and prostate cancer screening
1Health Services Research and Development Service, Office of Research and Development, Veterans Health Administration, 810 Vermont Avenue, Northwest, Washington, DC 20420, USA; Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Francisco, 401 Parnassus Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA; Department of Urology, University of California San Francisco, 400 Parnassus Avenue, Suite A610, San Francisco, CA 94123, USA.
Abstract:
This article presents an overview of the challenges that men encounter in making decisions about prostate cancer screening, including complex affective and cognitive factors and controversies in the interpretation of the evidence on prostate cancer screening. Shared decision making involving patient decision aids are discussed as approaches that can be used to improve the quality of prostate cancer screening decisions, including a close alignment between a man's values, goals, and preferences and his choice about screening.
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