Further information related to this fact sheet: Prostate cancer testing.
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- Cancer.
- Cancer screening.
- Health checks for men.
- Men's health.
- Prostate cancer.
- Prostate cancer and the PSA test.
- Prostate gland.
- Prostate gland and urinary problems.
- Prostatectomy - for cancer.
- Prostatectomy for benign disease.
- Reproductive system.
- Urinary system.
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Urological Society of Australia and New Zealand.
Support groups
Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia.
- Baade, P.D., Steginga, S.K., Pinnock, C.B. & Aitken, J.F., ‘Communicating prostate cancer risk: what should we be telling our patients?’ in Medical Journal of Australia, 2005, vol. 182. no. 9, pp. 472–5. More information here.
- Evidence-based recommendations for the management of localised prostate cancer, Australian Cancer Network. More information here.
- Satariano, W.A., Ragland, K.E. & Van Den Eeden, S.K., ‘Cause of death in men diagnosed with prostate carcinoma’, in Cancer, 1998, vol. 83, no. 6, pp. 1180–8. More information here.
- USANZ Prostate Cancer Testing Policy 2009, Urological Society of Australia and New Zealand. More information here.
- Schroder, F.H., Hugosson, J., Roobol, M.J., Tammela, T. L.J., Ciatto, S. Nelen, V., et al. 2009, ‘Screening and prostate-cancer mortality in a randomized European study’, in New England Journal of Medicine, vol. 360, no. 13, p. 18. More information here.
- Prostate cancer screening position statement , Cancer Council Victoria. More information here.
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