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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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...