Timeline for Does screening for prostate cancer save lives?
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| Mar 14, 2018 at 14:42 | comment | added | Benjol | This issue is crying out for a nice analogy. | |
| Mar 12, 2018 at 10:00 | comment | added | matt_black | @Muschkopp Giuliani's numbers can be both correct and completely misleading. 5-year survival in prostate cancer is completely unrelated to mortality from prostate cancer. So his numbers are technically right but incredibly misleading giving the opposite impression to the truth. The point being that screening improves 5-year survival even if the day every patient dies is unchanged at all by screening. | |
| Mar 12, 2018 at 9:56 | comment | added | matt_black | @LorenPechtel Even that isn't obvious. Many of the reviews failed to find a significant change even in cancer-specific mortality (almost none fond a measurable change in all cause mortality). | |
| Mar 12, 2018 at 9:53 | comment | added | Muschkopp | The point of @LorenPechtel is important IMO. While this answer indeed answers the question about the general benefit of routine screening, the numbers given by Giulani can still be accurate (given that he had prostate cancer). | |
| Mar 11, 2018 at 2:13 | comment | added | Loren Pechtel | I have a problem with one bit here: "By choosing not to have the PSA test you can live a similar length of life, have little to no difference in your risk of dying from prostate cancer". The second part is false--by having the test you lower your risk of dying due to prostate cancer. It's just needless treatment causes as much of an increase as the benefit. | |
| Mar 8, 2018 at 12:02 | history | edited | matt_black | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
added summary at top of answer
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| Aug 21, 2014 at 4:47 | comment | added | Benjol | The closing blockquote would almost be worth putting at the top as a tl;dr; | |
| Aug 20, 2014 at 20:30 | history | edited | matt_black | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
minor formatting fix on final quote
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| Feb 3, 2013 at 22:14 | history | edited | matt_black | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Added some recent references and summary
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| Feb 18, 2012 at 12:48 | vote | accept | matt_black | ||
| Oct 30, 2011 at 20:37 | history | answered | matt_black | CC BY-SA 3.0 |