Prostate cancer patients want screening

Men with suspected or confirmed prostate cancer have several reasons for recommending routine testing for prostate specific antigen. A qualitative study by Chapple and colleagues (p 737) shows that the reasons why men with prostate cancer advocate screening include beliefs about the benefit of early diagnosis, the need to have responsibility, and a desire for equality with women regarding screening. Policy makers, politicians, and doctors, the authors say, need to understand why people want wider access to prostate specific antigen testing so that they can find better ways of communicating information about risk.


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Why men with prostate cancer want wider access to prostate specific antigen testing: qualitative study
Alison Chapple, Sue Ziebland, Sasha Shepperd, Rachel Miller, Andrew Herxheimer, and Ann McPherson
BMJ 2002 325: 737. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

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