[The practice guideline 'Lower urinary-tract symptoms in middle-aged and elderly men' (second revision) from the Dutch College of General Practitioners; a response from the perspective of urology].
New insights in the fields of terminology, diagnosis and treatment have been successfully implemented in the second revision of the practice guideline 'Lower urinary-tract symptoms in middle-aged and elderly men' from the Dutch College of General Practitioners. The result is a coherent, lucid and moreover practical guideline. It is important to stress that lower urinary-tract symptoms do not increase the patient's risk of prostate cancer. Screening for prostate cancer by the routine measurement of serum prostate-specific antigen is therefore not indicated.
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Universitair Medisch Centrum St Radboud, afd. Urologie, Postbus 9101, 6500 HB Nijmegen.
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D000368:Aged; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009426:Netherlands; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D010818:Practice Patterns, Physicians' / Q000592:standards*; D011467:Prostate / Q000502:physiology*; D011471:Prostatic Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology; D012307:Risk Factors; D012955:Societies, Medical; D014553:Urinary Tract Physiological Phenomena; D014554:Urination; D014555:Urination Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy*; D014572:Urology / Q000592:standards*