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Protecting Your Prostate

Posted on August 06, 2008

In what some are calling a surprise move, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force now recommends not screening for prostate cancer in men age 75 years or older. Tara Parker-Pope of The New York Times reports:Screening is typically performed with a blood test measuring prostate-specific antigen, or PSA, levels. Widespread PSA testing has led to high rates of detection. Last year, more than 218,000 men learned they had the disease.Yet various studies suggest the disease is overdiagnosed that is, detected at a point when the disease most likely would not affect life expectancy in 29...

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