{"title":"Recommendations from the BC Office of Health Technology Assessment.","authors":"K Bassett","doi":"","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The BCOHTA does not make recommendations or set policy; rather, we report on the evidence. Our message is clear: For asymptomatic men, there is no evidence that annual or semi-annual PSA testing will do any good. There is substantial evidence that PSA testing will lead to considerable harm.</p>","PeriodicalId":79379,"journal":{"name":"The Canadian journal of oncology","volume":"4 Suppl 1 ","pages":"86-8; discussion 89-95"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1994-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"The Canadian journal of oncology","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The BCOHTA does not make recommendations or set policy; rather, we report on the evidence. Our message is clear: For asymptomatic men, there is no evidence that annual or semi-annual PSA testing will do any good. There is substantial evidence that PSA testing will lead to considerable harm.