A program of systematic tracking of the cancer of the prostate, put in place in Austria, would have reduced the number of death assigned to this cancer, indicate a recent ?©tude1.

More of 85% of the men aged of 45 years to 75 years of the state of Tyrol underwent at least a test of tracking of the cancer of the prostate between 1993 and 2005. This test consists in a blood test to measure the rate of prostate specific antigen (PSA). The rate of APS is an indicator of the presence of a cancer of the prostate.

In 2005, at the men of less than 80 years, the death rate attributable to the cancer of the prostate in the state of Tyrol was of 54% less than the elevated cases of death estimated by the researchers. This proportion was of 29% in the rest of Austria where the systematic tracking was not offered. The researchers estimated the cases of death while being based on the death rates of 1986 to 1990.

The reduction of the number of death can explain itself by the premature tracking of the cancer of the prostate, that improves the rate of success of the treatments, note the authors of the survey.

Another sound of bell

The systematic tracking of the cancer of the prostate does not make the unanimity among the physicians. To Canada, the medical processes do not recommend to conduct the systematic tracking of the cancer of the prostate since the capacity of the tests to improve the odds of survival and to lengthen the life span is not demonstrated.

The College of the physicians of Quebec as well as the association of the urologists of Quebec suggest to discuss with a physician before undergoing a test in order of tracking to know his / her / its profits and his / her / its inconveniences.

The cancer of the prostate touches a man on eight before the age of 80 years and 1 on 27 will die some