Prostate cancer screening in Switzerland: 20-year trends and socioeconomic disparities.

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Abstract

Despite important controversy in its efficacy, prostate cancer (PCa) screening has become widespread. Important socioeconomic screening disparities have been reported. However, trends in PCa screening and social disparities have not been investigated in Switzerland, a high risk country for PCa. We used data from five waves (from 1992-2012) of the population-based Swiss Health Interview Survey to evaluate trends in PCa screening and its association with socioeconomic indicators.

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Journal ID (iso-abbrev): Prev Med

Title: Preventive medicine

Publisher: Elsevier BV

ISSN (Electronic): 1096-0260

ISSN (Print): 0091-7435

Publication date (Electronic): Jan 2016

Volume: 82

Affiliations

[1 ] Unit of population epidemiology, Department of Community Medicine, Primary Care and Emergency Medicine, University Hospitals of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland; Emory University, Department of Epidemiology, Atlanta, GA, USA; Division of chronic diseases, Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, Lausanne University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland. Electronic address: idris.guessous@hcuge.ch.

[2 ] Unit of population epidemiology, Department of Community Medicine, Primary Care and Emergency Medicine, University Hospitals of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.

[3 ] Emory University, Department of Epidemiology, Atlanta, GA, USA; American Cancer Society, Atlanta, GA, USA.

[4 ] Department of sociology, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.

[5 ] Division of quality of care, University Hospitals of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.

[6 ] School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Hebrew University-Hadassah, Jerusalem, Israel.

[7 ] Geneva Cancer Registry, Global Health Institute, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.

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Publisher Item ID: S0091-7435(15)00336-9

DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2015.11.009

PubMed ID: 26582208

SO-VID: e306c388-3c1f-413d-b27c-fd02623138f3

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Keywords: Disparities,PSA,Socioeconomic status,Switzerland,Trends

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Keywords: Disparities, PSA, Socioeconomic status, Switzerland, Trends

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