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Recommendations on screening for prostate cancer with the prostate-specific antigen test. - PubMed - NCBI

CMAJ. 2014 Nov 4;186(16):1225-34. doi: 10.1503/cmaj.140703. Epub 2014 Oct 27.

Recommendations on screening for prostate cancer with the prostate-specific antigen test.

Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care, Bell N1, Connor Gorber S1, Shane A1, Joffres M1, Singh H1, Dickinson J1, Shaw E1, Dunfield L1, Tonelli M1.

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• Prostate cancer screening: going beyond the clinical evidence. [CMAJ. 2014]

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PMC4216256

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Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care

Guideline Title

Recommendations on screening for prostate cancer with the prostate-specific antigen test.

Bibliographic Source(s)

Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care, Bell N, Connor Gorber S, Shane A, Joffres M, Singh H, Dickinson J, Shaw E, Dunfield L, Tonelli M. Recommendations on screening for prostate cancer with the prostate-specific antigen test. CMAJ. 2014 Nov 4;186(16):1225-34. [68 references] PubMed

Guideline Status

This is the current release of the guideline.

This guideline updates a previous version: Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care. Canadian Task Force on the Periodic Health Examination. Canadian Guide to Clinical Preventive Health Care. Ottawa (Canada): Health Canada; 1994. Screening for prostate cancer. p. 812-23. [29 references]

A complete list of planned reviews, updates and revisions is available under the What's New section at the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care Web site .

This guideline meets NGC's 2013 (revised) inclusion criteria.