TY  - CHAP
M1  - Book, Section
TI  - Screening for Prostate Cancer
A1  - Ozambela, Manuel
A1  - Preston, Mark A.
A2  - Bhasin, Shalender
A2  - O’Leary, Michael P.
A2  - Basaria, Shehzad S.
PY  - 2021
T2  - Essentials of Men’s Health
AB  - Identifying  healthy,  asymptomatic  individuals  harboring  occult  cancer  before  it  becomes  symptomatic  intuitively  makes  sense,  assuming  that  disease  progresses  in  a  linear  fashion;  at  first  silent  and  later  progressing  through  states  of  increasing  abnormality,  until  it  becomes  symptomatic  and,  eventually,  lethal.  In  1907,  Dr.  Charles  Childe  published  his  book,  The  Control  of  a  Scourge,  Or,  How  Cancer  Is  Curable.  His  argument  was  that  the  mortality  associated  with  cancer  was  related  to  its  late  presentation:  “Cancer  itself  is  not  incurable  …  it  is  the  delay  that  makes  it  so.”  This  thesis  informed  the  inception  of  cancer  screening  in  the  medical  community  and,  with  it,  the  aspiration  of  finding  disease  at  an  earlier  stage  when  intervention  may  be  curative,  or  at  least  curtail  morbidity.  
SN  - 
PB  - McGraw Hill
CY  - New York, NY
Y2  - 2024/04/19
UR  - accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1174516447
ER  -