{"entity":{"id":"screening-lt-prostate","kind":"term","name":"Prostate cancer early detection programme in Lithuania","aka":["Lithuanian Early Prostate Cancer Detection Programme","Lithuania: PSA screening programme"],"tldr":"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).","asOf":"2026-11-04","links":[{"label":"Patasius et al., Journal of Clinical Medicine 2020 (ten years of the Lithuanian programme)","url":"https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm9123826"}],"tags":["screening-programme"],"related":["national-screening-programmes"],"cancers":["prostate"],"sections":["early-detection"],"technologies":["prostate-screening-psa-mri"],"targets":[],"drugs":[],"companies":[],"institutions":[],"pathways":[],"terms":["screening","psa"],"trials":[],"people":[],"bottlenecks":[],"keyPapers":[],"journals":[],"dependsOn":[],"notes":[],"category":"Epidemiology & prevention"},"route":"/terms/screening-lt-prostate/","neighbours":{"term":[{"id":"national-screening-programmes","kind":"term","name":"National cancer screening programmes","route":"/terms/national-screening-programmes/"},{"id":"psa","kind":"term","name":"PSA (prostate-specific antigen)","route":"/terms/psa/"},{"id":"screening","kind":"term","name":"Screening","route":"/terms/screening/"}],"cancer":[{"id":"prostate","kind":"cancer","name":"Prostate cancer","route":"/cancers/prostate/"}],"section":[{"id":"early-detection","kind":"section","name":"Early Detection & Screening","route":"/fronts/early-detection/"}],"technology":[{"id":"prostate-screening-psa-mri","kind":"technology","name":"PSA and MRI-first prostate cancer screening","route":"/technologies/prostate-screening-psa-mri/"}]}}