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Prostate cancer screening in a low prevalence population

Is it worth it?

Mostafa A. Arafa, Karim H. Farhat, Mohamed A. Al-Atawi and Danny M. Rabah
Saudi Medical Journal July 2017, 38 (7) 733-737; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2017.7.18643
Mostafa A. Arafa
From the Cancer Research Chair, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
MPH, PhD
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Karim H. Farhat
From the Cancer Research Chair, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
MSc, PhD
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  • For correspondence: [email protected]
Mohamed A. Al-Atawi
From the Cancer Research Chair, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Danny M. Rabah
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vol. 38 no. 7 733-737
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2017.7.18643
PubMed 
28674719

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Saudi Medical Journal
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1658-3175
History 
  • Received February 1, 2017
  • Accepted April 11, 2017
  • Published online July 1, 2017.

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Copyright: © Saudi Medical Journal This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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  1. Mostafa A. Arafa, MPH, PhD,
  2. Karim H. Farhat, MSc, PhD⇑,
  3. Mohamed A. Al-Atawi, MB, CHB and
  4. Danny M. Rabah, FRCSC, FACS
  1. From the Cancer Research Chair, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
  1. Address correspondence and reprint request to: Dr. Karim Farhat, Cancer Research Chair, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. E-mail: Kfarhat{at}ksu.edu.sa ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0003-1871-2818
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Mostafa A. Arafa, Karim H. Farhat, Mohamed A. Al-Atawi, Danny M. Rabah
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