Prostate cancer screening in low- and -middle income countries: the Mexican case

• Main Authors: Martin Lajous (Author), Matthew R Cooperberg (Author), Jennifer Rider (Author), Hugo Arturo Manzanilla-García (Author), Fernando Bernardo Gabilondo-Navarro (Author), Francisco Tomás Rodríguez-Covarrubias (Author), Ruy López-Ridaura (Author), Luisa Elvira Torres-Sánchez (Author), Alejandro Mohar (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública, 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Prostate-specific antigen (PSA)-based early detection for prostate cancer is the subject of intense debate. Implementation of organized prostate cancer screening has been challenging, in part because the PSA test is so amenable to opportunistic screening. To the extent that access to cancer screenin...