Baseline prostate-specific antigen measurements and subsequent prostate cancer risk in the Danish Diet, Cancer and Health cohort
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Summary, in English
Aim: Although prostate-specific antigen (PSA) screening reduces mortality from prostate cancer, substantial over-diagnosis and subsequent overtreatment are concerns. Early screening of men for PSA may serve to stratify the male population by risk of future clinical prostate cancer. Methods and material: Case-control study nested within the Danish 'Diet, Cancer and Health' cohort of 27,179 men aged 50-64 at enrolment. PSA measured in serum collected at cohort entry in 1993-1997 was used to evaluate prostate cancer risk diagnosed up to 14 years after. We identified 911 prostate cancer cases in the Danish Cancer Registry through 31st December 2007 1:1 age-matched with cancer-free controls. Aggressive cancer was defined as >= T3 or Gleason score >= 7 or N1 or M1. Statistical analyses were based on conditional logistic regression with age as underlying time axis. Results: Total PSA and free-to-total PSA ratio at baseline were strongly associated with prostate cancer risk up to 14 years later. PSA was grouped in quintiles and free-to-total PSA ratio divided in three risk groups. The incidence rate ratio for prostate cancer was 150 (95% confidence interval, 72-310) among men with a total PSA in the highest quintile (>5.1 ng/ml) compared to the lowest (<0.80 ng/ml). The risk of aggressive cancer was highly elevated in men with a PSA level in the highest quintile. The results indicate that one-time measurement of PSA could be used in an individualised screening strategy, sparing a large proportion of men from further PSA-based screening. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Publiceringsår
2013
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
3041-3048
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
European Journal of Cancer
Volym
49
Issue
14
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
Elsevier
Ämne
- Medicinal Chemistry
Nyckelord
- Prostate neoplasm
- Prostate-specific antigen
- Baseline
- Risk factor
- Nested case-control study
Status
Published
Forskningsgrupp
- Clinical Chemistry, Malmö
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 1879-0852