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Screening for Prostate Cancer: Sharing the Decision Slide Set

CDC has developed a Web-based slide presentation, Screening for Prostate Cancer: Sharing the Decision, to help physicians explain prostate cancer and screening to patients more effectively.

Screening for Prostate Cancer: Sharing the Decision

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Overall Goals

 Definitions of
shared decision making
informed decision making

The overall goals of the slide presentation are to

  • Increase primary care providers understanding of the uncertainty surrounding the evidence on the effectiveness of prostate cancer screening and the benefits and harms of screening; and


  • Encourage use of shared decision making and provide information about how to do it.

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Learning Objectives

After viewing this slide show, physicians will have a better understanding of

  • The risks of prostate cancer and its natural history.


  • The potential benefits and possible harms of screening for and treating early stage prostate cancer.


  • How to use shared decision making with patients to help them decide whether to be screened for prostate cancer.

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Slide Set for Health Care Providers

CDC encourages health care providers to download and present from these slides to their colleagues. The knowledge gained from this presentation will help primary care providers to engage their patients in shared decision–making.

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Tools

You may want to provide the following materials as accompanying handouts to the presentation.

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Authors

Russell P. Harris, M.D., M.P.H., University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC; Ann Barry Flood, Ph.D, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH; Viktor Berge, Akerschus University Department of Surgery, Oslo, Norway; and Ralph J. Coates, Ph.D, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, GA.

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Acknowledgement

Contributions from the following CDC, Division of Cancer Prevention and Control staff were integral to the success of this project: O. Ann Larkin, MPH, Louie Ross, Ph.D, and Cherie Gray, MA.

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Reviewers

Special thanks to the reviewers, whose comments on the slide presentation were instrumental throughout the project. Participation in the slide show review process in no way implies endorsement of the content.


This Web site is intended for information only and is not a substitute for medical care or treatment by a qualified professional. Any person who has or might have a health problem should consult a professional health care provider.

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