Updated Japanese Urological Association Guidelines on  prostate-specific antigen-based screening for prostate  cancer in 2010.
The exposure rate of screening for prostate cancer using prostate-specific antigen (PSA) in Japan is still very low compared with that in the USA or western Europe. The mortality rate of prostate cancer will increase in the future and in 2020 it will be 2.8-fold higher than in 2000. Therefore, there is an urgent need to determine the best available countermeasures to decrease the rate of prostate cancer death. PSA screening, which can reduce the risk of death as a result of prostate cancer, should be offered to all men at risk of developing prostate cancer with fact sheets showing updated benefits and drawbacks of screening for prostate cancer.
Department of Urology, Graduate School of Medicine, Gunma University Graduate School, 3-39-22, Showa-machi, Maebashi, Gunma 371-8511, Japan.
D055088:Early Detection of Cancer / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D008297:Male; D017430:Prostate-Specific Antigen / Q000097:blood* / Q000592:standards; D011471:Prostatic Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D018570:Risk Assessment
D017430:Prostate-Specific Antigen