Prostate News Archive
11-Oct-2011
The trouble with prostate cancer tests
Doctors who treat prostate cancer disagree on the value of the prostate specific antigen, or PSA, test. But they agree on one thing: Men are hurt by overdiagnosis. Healthy men don't need prostate screening: US panel
Routine screening for prostate cancer does not help save the lives of healthy men and often triggers the need for more tests and treatments, a US government health panel said Friday. Well: Prostate Test Finding Leaves a Swirl of Confusion
For men living with a diagnosis of prostate cancer, the news that the P.S.A. test does more harm than good has been unsettling and confusing. No prostate cancer symptoms, no need to screen
Routine screening for prostate cancer does not help save the lives of healthy men and often triggers the need for more tests and treatments, a US government health panel said Friday. Prostate cancer experts bash panel's PSA test recommendation
U.S. Preventive Services Task Force concluded too many men diagnosed with tumors that never would have killed them, suffer serious side effects because of it
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