Society guideline links: Screening for prostate cancer

Introduction — This topic includes links to society and government-sponsored guidelines from selected countries and regions around the world. We will update these links periodically; newer versions of some guidelines may be available on each society's website. Some societies may require users to log in to access their guidelines.

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Links to related guidelines are provided separately. (See "Society guideline links: Diagnosis and management of prostate cancer".)

International

●European Association of Urology (EAU)-European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM)-European Society for Radiotherapy and Oncology (ESTRO)-European Society of Urogenital Radiology (ESUR)-International Society of Geriatric Oncology (SIOG): Guidelines on prostate cancer (2020)

Canada

●Canadian Urological Association (CUA): Recommendations on prostate cancer screening and early diagnosis (2017)

●Cancer Care Ontario (CCO): Position statement on prostate cancer screening using the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test (2017)

●Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care (CTFPHC): Recommendations on screening for prostate cancer with the prostate-specific antigen test (2014)

United States

●National Cancer Institute (NCI): Prostate cancer – Health professional version

●American Urological Association (AUA)/Society of Urologic Oncology (SUO): Guideline on early detection of prostate cancer (2023)

●AUA: Early detection of prostate cancer – Guideline (2013, reviewed 2018)

●US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF): Final recommendation statement on prostate cancer – Screening (2018)

●American Cancer Society (ACS): Guideline for the early detection of prostate cancer, update (2010)

Europe

●European Association of Urology (EAU)-European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM)-European Society for Radiotherapy and Oncology (ESTRO)-European Society of Urogenital Radiology (ESUR)-International Society of Geriatric Oncology (SIOG): Guidelines on prostate cancer (2020)

●European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO): Cancer of the prostate – Clinical practice guidelines for diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up (2015, updated 2019)

●ESMO: Prostate cancer – Consensus conference guidelines, 2012 (published 2013)

United Kingdom

●Choosing Wisely UK: Royal College of Pathologists – Unless a patient is at increased risk of prostate cancer because of race or family history, PSA testing does not necessarily lead to a longer life (2016)

●Prostate Cancer UK: Consensus statements on PSA testing in asymptomatic men in the UK – Information for health professionals (2016)

●Public Health England (PHE): Guidance for the prostate cancer risk management programme (PCRMP) – Benefits and risks of PSA testing (2016)

Australia–New Zealand

●Choosing Wisely Australia: Do not perform PSA testing for prostate cancer screening in men with no symptoms and whose life expectancy is less than 7 years

●Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP): Guidelines for Preventive Activities in General Practice (Red Book) – Prostate cancer, 9th edition (2016, updated 2018)

●Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia (PCFA) and Cancer Council Australia (CCA): Clinical practice guidelines for PSA testing and early management of test-detected prostate cancer (2016)

●Australian National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC): Prostate-specific antigen (PSA) testing in asymptomatic men (2014)

Japan

●[In Japanese] Choosing Wisely Japan: PSA examination for prostate cancer – When necessary and when not necessary for men (2018)

●[In Japanese] Japanese Urological Association (JUA): Screening guideline for prostate cancer (2018)

●[In English] JUA: Evidence-based clinical practice guideline for prostate cancer, 2016 edition (published 2017)

●[In Japanese] JUA: Clinical practice guideline for prostate cancer (2016)