Prostate cancer: 4. Screening
| Table 4: Assessment of screening for prostate cancer on the basis of World Health Organization criteria13 | |
| Criterion | For prostate cancer |
| Is the disease an important health problem? | Yes |
| Is there an accepted (effective) treatment for patients with the disease? | Probably |
| Are there facilities for diagnosis and treatment? | Yes |
| Is there a detectable preclinical phase of the disease? | Yes |
| Is there a suitable screening test? | Yes |
| Is the screening test acceptable to the population? | Yes |
| Is the natural history of the disease adequately understood? | Partially |
| Is there a generally accepted strategy to determine which patients should be treated? | To some degree |
| Are the costs generated by the screening program acceptable? | Possibly |
| Is there a program for continuous screening? | Premature |
