Detection Characteristics in Randomized Prostate Screening: Table 1
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Detection characteristics in randomized prostate screening.
A recent report in Clinical Cancer Research (1) addresses detection characteristics (positive predictive value, cancer detection rates, and tumor characteristics) in men who have undergone firstand second-round screening in the Finnish randomized prostate cancer screening trial. The article (1) also reports on detection characteristics in the second round according to prostate-specific antigen ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Clinical Cancer Research
سال: 2004
ISSN: 1078-0432,1557-3265
DOI: 10.1158/1078-0432.ccr-04-0278