Meadbh
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Gentlemen, here is a new article on PSA screening. The Canadian Task force on Preventive Health Care has reviewed all the evidence and has concluded that it does more harm than good on a population basis. They recommend that it be scrapped.
Of course, there will be individual men who say that their lives were saved because their prostate cancer was detected early due to having had the test. There will be others who had unnecessary treatment because the test was a false positive or detected a tumor that never would have been a problem in any case. Apparently the latter are in the majority.
PSA test should be abandoned as screen for prostate cancer, task force says - Health - CBC News
Recommendations on screening for prostate cancer with the prostate-specific antigen test
Of course, there will be individual men who say that their lives were saved because their prostate cancer was detected early due to having had the test. There will be others who had unnecessary treatment because the test was a false positive or detected a tumor that never would have been a problem in any case. Apparently the latter are in the majority.
PSA test should be abandoned as screen for prostate cancer, task force says - Health - CBC News
Recommendations on screening for prostate cancer with the prostate-specific antigen test