Prostate cancer screening, changing age-specific incidence trends and implications on familial risk.

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The incidence of prostate cancer has increased markedly during the past half century. We used the data from the Swedish Cancer Registry to follow the incidence trends and age-specific incidence up to 2002. Two different patterns in the age-incidence relationships were noted. The first one, prevailing until about 1995, was characterized by a preferential increase in incidence in men older than 70 years. In the...

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