Psychological and physiological impacts of a fast-track diagnostic workup for men with suspected prostate cancer: Preliminary report from a randomized clinical trial

  • Jianwei Zhu
  • , Ruoqing Chen
  • , Sabina Davidsson
  • , Jessica Carlsson
  • , Anna Messing-Eriksson
  • , Jonna Fridfeldt
  • , Ove Andrén
  • , Sven Olof Andersson
  • , Unnur Anna Valdimarsdóttir
  • , Fang Fang
  • , Katja Fall

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Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)239-242
Number of pages4
JournalCancer Communications
Volume40
Issue number5
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 May 2020

Bibliographical note

Funding Information: This study was funded by The Swedish Cancer Society (CF2016/795 and 2018/765) and Nyckelfonden, Örebro, Sweden (2015). The funders had no role in the design and conduct of the study, collection, analysis, and interpretation of the data, and writing and approval of the manuscript. Funding Information: This study was funded by The Swedish Cancer Society (CF2016/795 and 2018/765) and Nyckelfonden, ?rebro, Sweden (2015). The funders had no role in the design and conduct of the study, collection, analysis, and interpretation of the data, and writing and approval of the manuscript. This randomized clinical trial was approved by the ethics committee at ?rebro University Hospital and was registered at the ISRCTN registry www.isrctn.com (No. ISRCTN45953686). Written informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study. All authors accept the publication of this work and all patients provided signed inform consent to use their data. The datasets generated and/or analyzed during the current study are not publicly available to protect participant confidentiality but can be partly provided from authors on reasonable request. The authors declare that they have no competing interest. This study was funded by The Swedish Cancer Society (CF2016/795 and 2018/765) and Nyckelfonden, ?rebro, Sweden (2015). The funders had no role in the design and conduct of the study, collection, analysis, and interpretation of the data, and writing and approval of the manuscript. JZ, RC, OA, SOA, UV, FF, and KF conceived of and designed the study; JZ, SD, JC, AME, JF, OA, and SOA contributed to collection of the data; JZ and RC analyzed the data; JZ drafted the manuscript; JZ, RC, SD, JC, AME, JF, OA, SOA, UV, FF, and KF revised the manuscript critically for important intellectual content; All authors read and approved the final manuscript. The authors thank all the subjects who have participated in this clinical trial.

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

  1. SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
    SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being

Other keywords

  • Anxiety / psychology
  • Depression /psychology
  • Early Dectection of Cancer
  • Hydrocortisone / analysis
  • Prostratic Neoplasms / diagnosis
  • Saliva / chemistry

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