Quantifying the role of PSA screening in the US prostate cancer mortality decline |
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Authors: | Ruth Etzioni Alex Tsodikov Angela Mariotto Aniko Szabo Seth Falcon Jake Wegelin Dante diTommaso Kent Karnofski Roman Gulati David F. Penson Eric Feuer |
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Affiliation: | (1) Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, 1100 Fairview Ave N, M2-B230, Seattle, WA 98109-1024, USA;(2) Department of Biostatistics, University of California at Davis, Davis, USA;(3) Present address: Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA;(4) Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, USA;(5) Huntsman Cancer Institute, Salt Lake City, USA;(6) Present address: Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA;(7) Present address: Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, USA;(8) Present address: Novartis Pharmaceuticals, Basel, Switzerland;(9) Keck School of Medicine and Norris Cancer Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA |
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Abstract: | OBJECTIVE: To quantify the plausible contribution of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) screening to the nearly 30% decline in the US prostate cancer mortality rate observed during the 1990s. METHODS: Two mathematical modeling teams of the US National Cancer Institute's Cancer Intervention and Surveillance Modeling Network independently projected disease mortality in the absence and presence of PSA screening. Both teams relied on Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) registry data for disease incidence, used common estimates of PSA screening rates, and assumed that screening, by shifting disease from distant to local-regional clinical stage, confers a corresponding improvement in disease-specific survival. RESULTS: The teams projected similar mortality increases in the absence of screening and decreases in the presence of screening after 1985. By 2000, the models projected that 45% (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center) to 70% (University of Michigan) of the observed decline in prostate cancer mortality could be plausibly attributed to the stage shift induced by screening. CONCLUSIONS: PSA screening may account for much, but not all, of the observed drop in prostate cancer mortality. Other factors, such as changing treatment practices, may also have played a role in improving prostate cancer outcomes. |
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Keywords: | Prostate-specific antigen Prostate cancer Public health Computer simulation |
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