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Voluntary Screening Program for Prostate Cancer: Detection Rate and Cost
- Source :
- Southern Medical Journal. 87:785-788
- Publication Year :
- 1994
- Publisher :
- Southern Medical Association, 1994.
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Abstract
- In a community-wide screening program conducted in Jacksonville, Florida, 564 participants received free screening for prostate cancer. Frequency of positive results of prostate-specific antigen measurement and digital rectal examination was comparable to that found in similar programs in other communities. The estimated cost for each participant was $231, and the cost to discover each cancer was $7,240. If one also includes initial therapy in cost estimates, then the cost per participant was $520, and the cost to find and treat each patient was $16,300. The value of screening for prostate cancer must be judged by treatment outcome and underlying costs.
- Subjects :
- Male
Oncology
medicine.medical_specialty
Cost estimate
Biopsy
Treatment outcome
Prostate cancer
Internal medicine
medicine
Humans
Mass Screening
Initial therapy
Physical Examination
health care economics and organizations
Aged
medicine.diagnostic_test
business.industry
Carcinoma
Prostatic Neoplasms
Reproducibility of Results
Cancer
Health Care Costs
General Medicine
Rectal examination
Middle Aged
Prostate-Specific Antigen
medicine.disease
Emergency medicine
Costs and Cost Analysis
Florida
Antigen measurement
Detection rate
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 00384348
- Volume :
- 87
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Southern Medical Journal
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....32239b944ec1f81575a2cafd18388f44