«But when PSA screening first started, there was a huge spike in the number of prostate cancer cases diagnosed. (sciencedaily.com)
In 2017, the American Cancer Society estimates that there will be more than 161,000 new prostate cancer cases in the United States and around 27,000 deaths from the disease. (sciencedaily.com)
The researchers used data from 1983 to 1985, the three years immediately preceding the PSA screening test, to determine the rate of metastatic prostate cancer cases without screening and used the rate to extrapolate the number of cases in 2008, the latest year for which data are available. (scientificamerican.com)