The Debate on Prostate Cancer Screening: What Does the Wisdom from the Old Books Whisper?

Abstract

Prostate cancer is a prevalent problem in male healthcare. The previous decades have witnessed some significant improvements in the knowledge of aetiology and pathology, as well as practice of screening, treatment, and follow-up of the disease. A downstaging at the time of the diagnosis and increase in the survival were vivid with the advancements, albeit the screening of the disease using regular prostate specific antigen measurements was previously debated. In this paper, the authors aimed to inform the reader on the course of the prostate cancer along a century by sailing along the chapters of the old urology textbooks.