PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Eric A. Klein
TI  - What’s new in prostate cancer screening and prevention?
AID  - 10.3949/ccjm.76a.02009
DP  - 2009 Aug 01
TA  - Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine
PG  - 439--445
VI  - 76
IP  - 8
4099  - http://www.ccjm.org/content/76/8/439.short
4100  - http://www.ccjm.org/content/76/8/439.full
SO  - Cleve Clin J Med2009 Aug 01; 76
AB  - Prostate cancer is extremely common but causes death in only a minority of men in whom it develops, facts that raise issues regarding screening and treatment morbidity. Two large trials of screening with prostate-specific antigen (PSA) measurements came to seemingly opposite conclusions. Furthermore, a large trial of selenium and vitamin E found that these agents have no value as preventive agents.