Prostate cancer screening with Andrew Vickers and Sam Merriel
Deep Breath In30 Juni 2023

Prostate cancer screening with Andrew Vickers and Sam Merriel

Common themes for discussion on this podcast include overdiagnosis, approaches to the testing, the ins and outs of explanations, as well as other issues facing GPs who are overburdened, and have limited time and resources to treat patients. A topic which draws all of these themes together is prostate cancer screening.

The BMJ recently published a feature which asked whether the UK is ready to roll out a nationwide prostate cancer screening programme, and the linked analysis paper, authored by Dr Andrew Vickers and colleagues, argued that the current model of screening, which determines testing by shared decision making, is the worst approach for detecting prostate cancer.

We spoke to Andrew Vickers to discuss this further, and our second interview was with Dr Sam Merriel, regarding the emerging evidence that suggests that taking an MRI scan prior to biopsy could decrease harms associated with overdiagnosis and overtreatment of prostate cancer.

Our guests:

  • Andrew Vickers is an attending research methodologist in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York.

  • Sam Merriel is a GP, and a researcher on cancer diagnostic testing at the University of Exeter.

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