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Recent incidence and surgery trends for prostate cancer: Towards an attenuation of overdiagnosis and overtreatment?

Sabrina Jegerlehner | Arnaud Chiolero | Drahomir Aujesky | Nicolas Rodondi | Simon Germann | Isabelle Konzelmann | Jean-Luc Bulliard | NICER Working Group
PloS one | 2019

Screening for prostate cancer is frequent in high-income countries, including Switzerland. Notably due to overdiagnosis and overtreatment, various organisations have recently recommended against routine screening, potentially having an impact on incidence, mortality, and surgery rates. Our aim was therefore to examine whether secular trends in the incidence and mortality of prostate cancer, and in prostatectomy rates, have recently changed in Switzerland.

Pubmed ID: 30716740

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