RT Book, Section
A1 Ozambela, Manuel
A1 Preston, Mark A.
A2 Bhasin, Shalender
A2 O’Leary, Michael P.
A2 Basaria, Shehzad S.
SR Print(0)
ID 1174516447
T1 Screening for Prostate Cancer
T2 Essentials of Men’s Health
YR 2021
FD 2021
PB McGraw Hill
PP New York, NY
SN 9781260135886
LK accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1174516447
RD 2024/04/23
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.