Comparing 3 techniques for eliciting patient values for decision making about prostate-specific antigen screening: a randomized controlled trial.

Importance: To make good decisions about prostate-specific antigen (PSA) screening, men must consider how they value the different potential outcomes.

Objective: To determine the effects of different methods of helping men consider such values.

Design And Setting: Randomized trial from October 12 to 27, 2011, in the general community.

Colorectal cancer: screening.

Introduction: Nearly two thirds of colorectal cancers occur in the rectum or sigmoid colon. It is the third most common cancer in resource-rich countries, accounting for about 20,000 deaths each year in the UK, and 60,000 each year in the USA.

Methods And Outcomes: We conducted a systematic review and aimed to answer the following clinical question: What are the effects of screening for colorectal cancer? We searched: Medline, Embase, The Cochrane Library and other important databases up to November 2006 (BMJ Clinical evidence reviews are updated periodically, please check our website for the most up-to-date version of this review).