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PSA, the Prostate, and a Word of Caution
Created on 9/4/2009
Screening for cancer of any type makes sense, in theory, because if caught early enough treatment can be started and the disease defeated, right?
Yes, in most cases.
But what if a screening test comes back "positive" when the disease process itself was actually very minor and might not have caused health issues at all?
Such are new concerns about the PSA test and prostate cancer screening. A recent study points to over-confidence in the test results, and suggests that some men with very mild forms of prostate cancer may have undergone unnecessarily invasive treatments for the disorder.
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