Determinants of participation in prostate cancer screening: a simple analytical framework to account for healthy-user bias.

ABSTRACT: In Japan at present, fecal occult blood testing (FOBT) is recommended for cancer screening while routine population-based prostate-specific antigen (PSA) screening is not. In future it may be necessary to increase participation in the former and decrease it in the latter. Our objectives were to explore determinants of PSA-screening participation while simultaneously taking into account factors associated with FOBT. Data were gathered from a cross-sectional study conducted with random sampling of 6191 adults in Osaka city in 2011. Of 3244 subjects (return rate 52.4%), 936 men aged 40-64 years were analyzed using log-binomial regression to explore factors related to PSA-screening participation within 1 year. Only responders for cancer screening, defined as men who participated in either FOBT

SUBMITTER: Tabuchi T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4317786 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature