An estimate of prostate cancer prevalence in Italy.
Estimates of the total number of men with a previous diagnosis of prostate cancer in Italy range from 55,000 to 135,000. This wide range of variation is largely due to uncertainties on the number of protein-specific antigen-detected, asymptomatic cases. The number of clinically detected cases, including cases with advanced disease, is less subject to uncertainty, with reasonable estimates ranging from 45,000 to 60,000.
La Vecchia
Carlo
C
Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri, Milan, Italy. garimoldi@marionegri.it
Bruzzi
Paolo
P
Decarli
Adriano
A
Gaboardi
Franco
F
Boyle
Peter
P
D005060:Europe / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D007558:Italy / Q000453:epidemiology; D008297:Male; D008403:Mass Screening / Q000379:methods; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D015995:Prevalence; D017430:Prostate-Specific Antigen / Q000097:blood; D011471:Prostatic Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000276:immunology / Q000601:surgery; D012042:Registries
D017430:Prostate-Specific Antigen