Mortality Results from a Randomized Prostate-Cancer Screening Trial

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Authors

Gerald L. Andriole · National Institutes of Health

E. David Crawford · University of Colorado Denver

Robert L. Grubb

Saundra S. Buys · Huntsman Cancer Institute

David Chia · National Institutes of Health

Timothy R. Church · National Institutes of Health

Mona N. Fouad · University of Alabama at Birmingham

Abstract

After 7 to 10 years of follow-up, the rate of death from prostate cancer was very low and did not differ significantly between the two study groups. (ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT00002540.)

Topics & Keywords

Prostate Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment Colorectal Cancer Screening and Detection Prostate Cancer Treatment and Research

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Good health and well-being

Publication Details

Published in: New England Journal of Medicine

Volume 360, Issue 13, pp. 1310-1319

DOI: 10.1056/nejmoa0810696

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