title: [Prostate cancer: prevention and patient education--wishes and demands from the viewpoint of patients].
abstract: Everyone is personally responsible for his/her yearly medical checks. But who is responsible for the fact that everybody knows about them? Prostate cancer is the most common malicious illness of men in Austria. How good are the chances to detect prostate cancer by various means of examinations? With the cost of one man whose cancer has been detected too late you can do the PSA test for about 10,000 men.
authors.affiliation: Selbsthilfe Prostatakrebs, Medizinisches Selbsthilfezentrum, Obere Augartenstrasse 26-28, A-1020 Wien. ekkehard.buechler@newsclub.at
authors.forename: E F
authors.initials: EF
authors.lastname: Büchler
mesh_terms: D001317:Austria; D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008403:Mass Screening / Q000191:economics*; D010342:Patient Acceptance of Health Care; D010353:Patient Education as Topic / Q000191:economics*; D010819:Physician's Role; D011471:Prostatic Neoplasms / Q000191:economics / Q000401:mortality / Q000517:prevention & control*; D015996:Survival Rate