IJE Advance Access published online on April 21, 2007
International Journal of Epidemiology, doi:10.1093/ije/dym070
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Prostate cancer, Cochrane, Durkheim and Beer Lao
E-mail: shah.ebrahim@lshtm.ac.uk
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There are many things to worry about as we get older. Women have had to cope with gynaecological cancer screening for decades but for men, prostate cancer screening is the latest worry on the scene for British men of a certain age, 50+ to be exact, as a new trial of prostate cancer screening is now underway in many areas of the country. In other countries, prostate specific antibody (PSA) screening is already part of the well-man (or is that worried-man?) screening battery, putting you closer to a prostate biopsy than you might want. In this issue we reprint