A government panel has remarked that routine PSA blood tests for checking men for prostate cancer do more harm than good and healthy men should no longer receive the tests as part of routine cancer screening.
Though the remark came late, it does support long-standing claims by major medical groups that prostate cancer screening is of no use and harmful.
From news.yahoo.com:
The panel’s guidelines had long advised men over 75 to forgo the tests and the new recommendation extends that do-not-screen advice to healthy men of all ages.
The recommendation by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, being made public on Friday, will not come as a surprise to cancer specialists.
Yet, most men over 50 have had at least one PSA blood test, the assumption being that finding cancer early is always a good thing.
Not so, said Dr. Virginia Moyer of the Baylor College of Medicine, who heads the task force.
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