Pathways to Cost Effective Prevention, Detection and Treatment of Prostrate Cancer in Australia: Achieving Goals for Australia's Health to 2000 and beyond

The current review supports the recommendations of the Australian Health Technology Advisory Committee (AHTAC) against the screening of asymptomatic men for prostate cancer. Australian researchers should link in with two large randomised controlled trials of prostate cancer interventions being undertaken in the USA and Europe; and consider more disaggregated and carefully targetted screening and treatment strategies. Treatment staging. The use...