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The incidence of prostate cancer has increased considerably over the past two decades, partly due to the increased detection of subclinical cases. In southeastern Netherlands, a region of almost 1 million inhabitants with good access to specialised medical care, prostate-specific antigen (PSA) assays were not introduced until 1990, allowing us to investigate the nature of the increases in incidence...