Building on an earlier pilot study, a large-scale mobile community-based prostate cancer screening project successfully diagnosed over 100 cases among nearly 3,500 men and maintained high diagnostic rates -- especially in Black and underserved populations.
In this exclusive MedPage Today video, Masood Moghul, MD, of the Institute of Cancer Research and Royal Marsden Hospital in London, discusses the future of mobile community-based prostate cancer screening and its potential for reaching high-risk groups and detecting other cancers through novel tests.
Following is a transcript of his remarks :
The key findings are that this was a project that followed on from a pilot project where we tried to look at the feasibility of doing mobile community-based prostate cancer case findings. So we followed that on with a larger scale project. We saw through almost three and a half thousand men, diagnosed over 100 prostate cancers.
Key findings are that we managed to scale up the project from a small pilot project to a much larger study, and we were able to replicate our findings of targeting key demographics -- so high numbers of recruitment of Black men and men from underserved populations -- and maintained our diagnostic rates of prostate cancer, which are higher than found in traditional screening studies. And also maintained our rates of finding vast majority of prostate cancer, which was clinically significant disease.
This has wide ranging implications for all sorts of health systems, both in developed countries and low- and middle-income countries as well.
So for the future, I mean, what it really highlights is that if you have a test that's small enough, like the blood test, or we're coming out with all sorts of novel tests for other cancers like breath tests, these can be done in mobile clinics. And that really does help to sort of level the playing field and support early diagnosis in high-risk populations.
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