Screening Prostate-specific Antigen Concentration and Prostate Cancer Mortality: The Korean Heart Study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To evaluate the association between serum prostate-specific antigen (PSA) concentration from a screening test and prostate cancer mortality in an Asian population.

Methods

We included 118,665 men in the Korean Heart Study, a large prospective cohort study of participants who voluntarily underwent private health examinations that included PSA-based prostate cancer screening. The baseline visit occurred between January 1994 and December 2004, and follow-up was through December 2011. Deaths from prostate cancer were ascertained from the underlying cause of death from a computerized search of death certificate data from the National Statistical Office in Korea. We used the Cox proportional hazards regression to estimate the association between serum PSA and risk of pro

SUBMITTER: Mok Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4659382 | biostudies-literature | 2015 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature