# Prostate cancer early detection programme in Lithuania

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## TL;DR

Lithuania has offered PSA testing to men aged 50 to 74 through a population-based programme since 2006; in its first ten years 70% of the men eligible were tested at least once.

## Summary

Lithuania's population-based Early Prostate Cancer Detection Programme offers PSA testing to men aged 50 to 74. A review of 2006 to 2015 found that coverage reached up to 45.5% of the target population in recent rounds and that 70% were screened at least once in ten years. The share of men with a positive PSA test fell from 16.9% in 2006 to 10.7% in 2014-2015; up to 40.0% of them had a biopsy, of which 42.0% found prostate cancer, and 16,061 prostate cancers were registered within the programme. Screened men were more likely to be diagnosed with organ-confined disease than non-participants. The authors describe the screening practice as unorganised, with low coverage per round (Patasius et al., Journal of Clinical Medicine 2020).

## Fields

- Kind: Term
- Last checked: 2026-11-04
- Also known as: Lithuanian Early Prostate Cancer Detection Programme; Lithuania: PSA screening programme
- Tags: screening-programme

## Sources

- Patasius et al., Journal of Clinical Medicine 2020 (ten years of the Lithuanian programme): https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm9123826

## Connected records

- terms: [National cancer screening programmes](https://onco.cc/terms/national-screening-programmes/), [PSA (prostate-specific antigen)](https://onco.cc/terms/psa/), [Screening](https://onco.cc/terms/screening/)
- cancers: [Prostate cancer](https://onco.cc/cancers/prostate/)
- fronts: [Early Detection & Screening](https://onco.cc/fronts/early-detection/)
- technologies: [PSA and MRI-first prostate cancer screening](https://onco.cc/technologies/prostate-screening-psa-mri/)

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