Friday, October 7, 2011

From MSNBC: PSA test - Throwing the baby out with the bath water?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44815299/ns/health-mens_health/#.To8Cd5sg-k4

No prostate test: 'Throwing baby out with bath water'
Medical groups say recommendation against routine screening will increase cancer deaths in men

"An influential panel's recommendation against routine prostate cancer screening in healthy men has prompted worries the move will increase cancer deaths.

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, the same group that recommended doctors scale back on mammograms for women, is thinking of recommending against use of the prostate-specific antigen or PSA test."

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