Perceptions about screening for prostate cancer using genetic lifetime risk assessment: a qualitative study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Most health authorities do not recommend screening for prostate cancer with PSA tests in asymptomatic patients who are not at increased risk. However, opportunistic screening for prostate cancer is still wanted by many patients and it is widely used in primary care clinics, with potential for overdiagnosis and overtreatment. Better tools for risk assessment have been called for, to better target such opportunistic screening. Our aim was to explore perceptions about prostate cancer risk and subsequent opportunistic screening among patients who were not at increased risk of prostate cancer after a first PSA test plus a genetic lifetime risk assessment.

Methods

We undertook semi-structured patient interviews with recording and verbatim transcription of interviews. Da

SUBMITTER: Kirkegaard P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5816534 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature