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[Prostate cancer screening? Only evidence-based, risk-adjusted, and organized!]

Peter AlbersNikolaus Becker
Published in: Bundesgesundheitsblatt, Gesundheitsforschung, Gesundheitsschutz (2024)
In view of a recent recommendation of the European Commission to conceptualize novel screening approaches for lung, gastric, and prostate cancer, Germany is also invoked to revise its prostate early detection program. This discussion article provides an overview of new findings on prostate cancer screening, which suggest an organized and risk-adapted screening approach. Based on the German risk-adapted screening trial PROBASE, together with recently published data on organized screening programs in Europe, model projects should be established to determine the specific modalities for a new organized and risk-adapted prostate cancer screening program.
Keyphrases
  • prostate cancer
  • radical prostatectomy
  • quality improvement
  • randomized controlled trial
  • public health
  • systematic review
  • clinical trial
  • big data