Dear Colleagues,
Yet another paper in Lancet and NEJM on PSA screening and prostate cancer, but what I like in the below Lancet paper most is its last sentence:
“To the Hippocratic Oath might be added: I will not request an investigation unless I am confident that the answer, and the actions I take on its basis, will substantially improve my patient's life.”
For the PIVOT trial see New Engl J Med 2012; 367: 203—13
Regards, Rita
Prof. Andrea Rita Horvath, MD, PhD, EurClinChem, FRCPath, FRCPA
Past President of the European Federation of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine
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