Sharing the Decision Slide Set: Slide 1

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Slide 1 — Screening for Prostate Cancer: Sharing the Decision

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Hello and welcome. This presentation deals with a common situation for clinicians: helping patients make the best clinical choices. The choice in this instance is whether to be screened for prostate cancer. By screening we mean testing for signs of the disease in men who have no symptoms. This presentation does not address the use of diagnostic tests in symptomatic men. The talk focuses on the prostate specific antigen (PSA) test—the most advanced screening test for prostate cancer. The general principles also apply to the use of the digital rectal exam (DRE) as a screening test.

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Title page – Screening for Prostate Cancer: Sharing the Decision