Exploring Causes For Declining Prostate Cancer Mortality Rates In The United States

UroToday.com - A question that has never been clearly answered is, following the introduction of PSA screening in the US in 1989, why prostate cancer (CaP) deaths increased between 1989 and 1993, then decreased from 1993 to 2003. The initial increase was felt to have been caused by misattribution bias - in other words many more living men with a diagnosis of CaP, and some fixed proportion of those men who died of other causes, were misattributed to death from CaP.

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Filed under: Cancer on January 16th, 2009