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Maintaining quality of life after prostate cancer diagnosis
(2011-09-30)
Knowledge of real-life factors that are associated with men’s self-assessed quality of life after prostate-cancer diagnosis could improve the support from health-care professionals in maintaining the men’s quality of life. ...
Prostate cancer screening with PSA - A study of potential negative consequences
(2010-11-19)
Aims: The Göteborg randomized population-based prostate cancer screening trial is a prospective study evaluating the efficacy of prostate-specific antigen (PSA)-based screening and its effect on prostate cancer mortality. ...
Optimized use of MRI in a PSA based prostate cancer screening program
(2021-05-07)
The overall aim of this thesis was to optimize different aspects of the use of MRI in screening for prostate cancer. Paper 1 was based on preoperative MRI in a prostatectomy cohort. Papers 2-4 were based on data from the ...
Prostate Cancer Screening - Aspects of Overdiagnosis
(2014-11-28)
The overall aim of this thesis is to explore aspects of overdiagnosis, i.e. the diagnosis of a tumor that in the absence of screening would never have been diagnosed, in prostate cancer (PC) screening. The four papers in ...
Prostate Cancer Screening: Outcomes and Risk Prediction
(2018-12-12)
Prostate Cancer Screening: Outcomes and Risk Prediction
Maria Frånlund, MD
Department of Urology, Institute of Clinical Sciences
Sahlgrenska Academy at University of Gothenburg, Sweden
ABSTRACT
The Göteborg Randomized ...
Magnetic Resonance Imaging as a Screening Tool for Prostate Cancer
(2021-04-20)
The overall aim of this thesis was to explore the role of Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the prostate as an adjunct to the prostate-specific antigen (PSA)-test in screening for prostate cancer (PCa), focusing on the ...
Health economic aspects of minimally invasive surgical techniques
(2018-04-25)
The aim of this thesis was to compare minimally invasive- with traditional open
surgical techniques for various diseases with regards to cost-effectiveness. Health
economic evaluations were performed using data from ...
Treatment of early prostate cancer - reducing side effects without jeopardizing cure
(2021-09-29)
The overall aim of this thesis is to gain further knowledge of how surgical choices affect the outcome for patients undergoing radical prostatectomy for early prostate cancer including preoperative evaluation and long-term ...
Characteristics of screen-failures in prostate cancer screening
(2015-03-30)
ABSTRACT
Although prostate-specific antigen (PSA)-based screening has been shown to reduce prostate cancer (PC)-specific mortality with large variations in mortality reduction with different screening algorithms, the ...
Aspects of Chemotherapy in Prostate Cancer
(2021-10-19)
Since 2004 chemotherapy has been a part of standard of care in prostate cancer (PC) and improved symptom control and survival has been demonstrated in metastatic castration-resistant PC. Whether docetaxel has benefits in ...