Correct answers to multiple choice questions appearing in the European Urology Update Series 2005

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Correct answers to multiple choice questions appearing in the European Urology Update Series 20055. d. The mean incidence of prostate cancer found at autopsy is 37.6% [7]. Despite the disease being rare in young men, several investigators found prostate tumours in men aged < 40 years [8][9][10]. Autopsy cancers are, by definition, latent (i.e. not apparent during life) but are not always insignificant (tumour volume < 0.2 mL, confined to the prostate, Gleason score < 7 [2]). Holund [11] found high-grade tumours in 16% of the examined prostates.6. c. In the ERSPC, Schröder et al . [12] found that the rate of prostate cancer detection (with a biopsy indicated by a PSA of ≥ 3.0 ng/mL) per number of indicated biopsies was 21.5% (96/446) at a PSA of 3.0-3.9 ng/mL. In this study the old (biopsy indication ≥ 4.0 ng/mL and/or abnormal DRE/ TRUS) and the new ( ≥ 3.0 ng/mL) protocol for prostate cancer screening were compared. REFERENCES