Screening for Prostate Cancer with Prostate-Specific Antigen — An Examination of the Evidence

Measurement of Prostate-Specific Antigen in Serum as a Screening Test for Prostate Cancer

1991 • 2,353 citations

Cancer statistics, 1995

1995 • 1,434 citations

Prostate Specific Antigen: A Critical Assessment of the Most Useful Tumor Marker for Adenocarcinoma of the Prostate

1991 • 1,273 citations

Comparison of Digital Rectal Examination and Serum Prostate Specific Antigen in the Early Detection of Prostate Cancer: Results of a Multicenter Clinical Trial of 6,630 Men

1994 • 1,171 citations

Serum prostate-specific antigen in a community-based population of healthy men. Establishment of age-specific reference ranges

1993 • 1,118 citations

Results of Conservative Management of Clinically Localized Prostate Cancer

1994 • 962 citations

A complex between prostate-specific antigen and alpha 1-antichymotrypsin is the major form of prostate-specific antigen in serum of patients with prostatic cancer: assay of the complex improves clinical sensitivity for cancer.

1991 • 954 citations

Prostate Cancer Detection in a Clinical Urological Practice by Ultrasonography, Digital Rectal Examination and Prostate Specific Antigen

1990 • 767 citations

Prostate Specific Antigen Density: A Means of Distinguishing Benign Prostatic Hypertrophy and Prostate Cancer

1992 • 749 citations

The Frequency of Carcinoma and Intraepithelial Neoplasia of the Prostate in Young Male Patients

1993 • 748 citations

Patient-re ported complications and follow-up treatment after radical prostatectomy

1993 • 643 citations

Latent carcinoma of the prostate

1954 • 530 citations

Pathologic and clinical findings to predict tumor extent of nonpalpable (stage T1c) prostate cancer

1994 • 385 citations

Screening for prostate cancer. A decision analytic view

1994 • 328 citations

Defining and updating the American Cancer Society guidelines for the cancer-related checkup: prostate and endometrial cancers

1993 • 309 citations

Longitudinal evaluation of prostate-specific antigen levels in men with and without prostate disease

1992 • 306 citations

Detection of organ-confined prostate cancer is increased through prostate-specific antigen-based screening

1993 • 278 citations

Prostate Cancer Screening: What We Know and What We Need To Know

1993 • 274 citations

A structured literature review of treatment for localized prostate cancer. Prostate Disease Patient Outcome Research Team

1993 • 221 citations

Prostate Cancer Screening in the Prostate, Lung, Colorectal and Ovarian Cancer Screening Trial of the National Cancer Institute

1994 • 217 citations

Early Detection of Prostate Cancer

1989 • 208 citations

The Prostate Cancer Intervention Versus Observation Trial: A Randomized Trial Comparing Radical Prostatectomy Versus Expectant Management for the Treatment of Clinically Localized Prostate Cancer

1994 • 189 citations

Carcinoma of the Prostate in Elderly Men: Incidence, Growth Characteristics and Clinical Significance

1969 • 158 citations

Transrectal Ultrasound Examination of the Prostate: Complications and Acceptance by Patients

1993 • 152 citations

An autopsy study of latent prostatic cancer

1953 • 144 citations

Economics of Screening for Carcinoma of the Prostate

1990 • 144 citations

The role of increasing detection in the rising incidence of prostate cancer

1995 • 143 citations

Epidemiologic aspects of latent and clinically manifest carcinoma of the prostate

1983 • 136 citations

A decision analysis of alternative treatment strategies for clinically localized prostate cancer. Prostate Patient Outcomes Research Team

1993 • 133 citations

Case-control study of screening for prostatic cancer by digital rectal examinations

1991 • 122 citations

Latent Carcinoma of the Prostate

1949 • 118 citations

Long-term survival among men with conservatively treated localized prostate cancer

1995 • 112 citations

Early Complications of Contemporary Anatomical Radical Retropubic Prostatectomy

1994 • 112 citations

A Critique of the Decision Analysis for Clinically Localized Prostate Cancer

1994 • 108 citations

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1980 • 106 citations

Morbidity with Contemporary Prostate Biopsy

1993 • 94 citations

The benefit and cost of prostate cancer early detection. The Investigators of the American Cancer Society-National Prostate Cancer Detection Project

1993 • 89 citations

Radical prostatectomy versus expectant primary treatment in stages I and II prostatic cancer A fifteen-year follow-up

1990 • 88 citations

Expectant Management of Early Stage Prostatic Cancer: Swedish Experience

1994 • 77 citations

Characteristics of Prostate Cancer Detected in the American Cancer Society-National Prostate Cancer Detection Project

1994 • 67 citations

Carcinoma of the prostate in patients 70 to 79 years old

1966 • 54 citations

The evaluation and treatment of men with asymptomatic prostate nodules in primary care: a decision analysis.

1992 • 47 citations

Serum Prostate-Specific Antigen Discriminates Weakly between Men with Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia and Patients with Organ-Confined Prostate Cancer

1994 • 45 citations

Mortality of Patients after Radical Prostatectomy: Analysis of Recent Medicare Claims

1994 • 44 citations

Morbidity and Mortality Following Radical Prostatectomy: A National Analysis of Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services Beneficiaries

1995 • 36 citations

Prostate cancer screening. What family physicians believe is best

1995 • 32 citations

Prostate cancer. Mortality and morbidity after non-curative treatment with aspects on diagnosis and treatment.

1994 • 32 citations

Disease-specific survival following routine prostate cancer screening by digital rectal examination

1993 • 22 citations

A decision analysis of alternative treatment strategies for clinically localized prostate cancer.

1993 • 11 citations

In Reply: Re The Value of Serial Prostate Specific Antigen Determinations 5 Years After Radiotherapy

1995 • 9 citations

Screening for prostate cancer

1995 • 3 citations