Thursday, 16 May 2013

Vote: Should men get PSA tests to screen for prostate cancer?


Prostate cancer hits one in six American men in their lifetimes, though in most cases it progresses so slowly that it would never cause problems. PSA tests can give an early warning of prostate cancer. But PSA tests also give many false alarms, prompting more than one million unnecessary biopsies every year. And when prostate cancer is found, more than 80% of men opt to have surgery, radiation or hormone therapy that sometimes leaves them incontinent or impotent, even though their cancer was probably never life-threatening.

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