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Overtreatment of prostate cancer in the active surveillance era

Common Sense Family Doctor

DECEMBER 14, 2024

Concerns about overdiagnosis of clinically insignificant prostate cancer through prostate specific antigen (PSA) screening motivated the 2018 American Academy of Family Physicians’ (AAFP) recommendation against routine screening for prostate cancer. Explaining the AAFP’s position, Drs. and 6.1%, respectively).

Routine Screenings

Routine Screenings Screening Complication Diagnose

The Witness

StorytellERdoc

JULY 17, 2020

The case manager. His wife saw the stillness of his heart on our black-and-white screen. Forty or so minutes had passed since the patient arrived and, as I had explained to the wife in the family room, time was not our friend. The family doctor was called. My resident physician. The patient's wife. And the patient.

ER Families Family Patients

Primary Care Digest

Overtreatment of prostate cancer in the active surveillance era

The Witness

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