Relative value of race, family history and prostate specific antigen as indications for early initiation of prostate cancer screening

Copyright © 2014 American Urological Association Education and Research, Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved..

PURPOSE: Many guidelines suggest earlier screening for prostate cancer in men at high risk, with risk defined in terms of race and family history. Recent evidence suggests that baseline prostate specific antigen is strongly predictive of the long-term risk of aggressive prostate cancer. We compared the usefulness of risk stratifying early screening by race, family history and prostate specific antigen at age 45 years.

MATERIALS AND METHODS: Using estimates from the literature we calculated the proportion of men targeted for early screening using family history, black race or prostate specific antigen as the criterion for high risk. We calculated the proportion of prostate cancer deaths that would occur in those men by age 75 years.

RESULTS: Screening based on family history involved 10% of men, accounting for 14% of prostate cancer deaths. Using black race as a risk criterion involved 13% of men, accounting for 28% of deaths. In contrast, 44% of prostate cancer deaths occurred in the 10% of men with the highest prostate specific antigen at age 45 years. In no sensitivity analysis for race and family history did the ratio of risk group size to number of prostate cancer deaths in that risk group approach that of prostate specific antigen.

CONCLUSIONS: Basing decisions for early screening on prostate specific antigen at age 45 years provided the best ratio between men screened and potential cancer deaths avoided. Given the lack of evidence that race or family history affects the relationship between prostate specific antigen and risk, prostate specific antigen based risk stratification would likely include any black men or men with a family history who are destined to experience aggressive disease. Differential screening based on risk should be informed by baseline prostate specific antigen.

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CommentIn: J Urol. 2014 Sep;192(3):728; discussion 728-9. - PMID 24912065

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2014

Erschienen:

2014

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:192

Enthalten in:

The Journal of urology - 192(2014), 3 vom: 19. Sept., Seite 724-8

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Vertosick, Emily A [VerfasserIn]
Poon, Bing Ying [VerfasserIn]
Vickers, Andrew J [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

African Americans
Age factors
Comparative Study
EC 3.4.21.77
Journal Article
Prostate specific antigen
Prostate-Specific Antigen
Prostatic neoplasms
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Risk

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Date Completed 20.10.2014

Date Revised 07.12.2022

published: Print-Electronic

CommentIn: J Urol. 2014 Sep;192(3):728; discussion 728-9. - PMID 24912065

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.juro.2014.03.032

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM236511831