OBJECTIVE: To review resources available to aid family physicians in their care of prostate cancer patients and develop an algorithm to summarize these findings. SOURCES OF INFORMATION: MEDLINE, EMBASE, and relevant website search. All relevant guidelines were level III evidence. MAIN MESSAGE: Improved screening and treatment of patients with prostate cancer is resulting in an increasing number of survivors. These men require ongoing monitoring, a responsibility that is largely falling to family physicians. We review the expected prostate-specific antigen (PSA) responses to different prostate cancer treatment modalities and provide an appropriate schedule of follow-up and monitoring techniques for prostate cancer patients. CONCLUSION: In light of the paucity of resources for family physicians in their ongoing care of prostate cancer patients, we present an algorithm, primarily based on PSA kinetics, for practical use in the continuing care of these patients.
OBJECTIVE: To review resources available to aid family physicians in their care of prostate cancerpatients and develop an algorithm to summarize these findings. SOURCES OF INFORMATION: MEDLINE, EMBASE, and relevant website search. All relevant guidelines were level III evidence. MAIN MESSAGE: Improved screening and treatment of patients with prostate cancer is resulting in an increasing number of survivors. These men require ongoing monitoring, a responsibility that is largely falling to family physicians. We review the expected prostate-specific antigen (PSA) responses to different prostate cancer treatment modalities and provide an appropriate schedule of follow-up and monitoring techniques for prostate cancerpatients. CONCLUSION: In light of the paucity of resources for family physicians in their ongoing care of prostate cancerpatients, we present an algorithm, primarily based on PSA kinetics, for practical use in the continuing care of these patients.
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