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  • August 2008
    • Panel: Don't Screen Older Men for Prostate Cancer

      Panel: Don't Screen Older Men for Prostate Cancer

      (Newser) - Physicians should stop screening men 75 and older for prostate cancer, according to new guidelines issued by national health task force. Prostate cancer is "overdiagnosed" in up to 44% of cases—that is, the cancer is present but so slow growing that it would probably never produce symptoms in the patient's lifetime.But the treatment itself may be debilitating, causing impotence or incontinence,  the New York Times reports. More »

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      prostate cancer   American Cancer Society   PSA   American Urological Association   Veterans Administration   prostate-specific antigen

  • June 2008

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