Prostate cancer - to screen or not to screen?
This article was originally published in Clinica
Executive Summary
Prostate cancer imposes a significant burden on society, both in terms of the individual suffering it causes and the demands it places on healthcare systems. Last year, approximately 192,000 men were diagnosed with prostate cancer in the US alone, and the number of deaths from the disease was estimated at around 27,000. All told, some 2.2 million men in the US are living with prostate cancer, and in many of these patients the tumour will have metastasised, often to bone, which can be painful and debilitating.