title: [Screening of the prostate cancer. "lnstantaneous" of a daily practice among 300 general practitioners of the canton of Vaud].
abstract: This investigation brings information on the practice of 300 general practitioners of the canton of Vaud as for the use of the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) and the digital rectal examination (DRE) in the prostate cancer screening. The high rate of answer shows their interest for this problem which they deal with in adequacy with the international recommendations published by the societies of urology.
authors.affiliation: Service d'urologie, CHUV, 1011 Lausanne. Valentin.Praz@chuv.ch
authors.forename: Valentin
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Praz
authors.forename: Patrice
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Jichlinski
authors.forename: Danièla
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Aymon
authors.forename: Hans-Jürg
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Leisinger
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D019538:Health Care Surveys; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008403:Mass Screening; D008875:Middle Aged; D010808:Physical Examination; D010821:Physicians, Family; D010818:Practice Patterns, Physicians' / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D017430:Prostate-Specific Antigen / Q000032:analysis*; D011471:Prostatic Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D012007:Rectum / Q000473:pathology; D013557:Switzerland
chemical_list: D017430:Prostate-Specific Antigen