PSA test for prostate cancer should be dropped, task force says

Tuesday, May 22, 2012 - 02:30 in Health & Medicine

An expert advisory panel argues that needless treatments hurt many more men than are helped by early detection, but some doctors take issue.The PSA test should be abandoned as a prostate cancer screening tool, a government advisory panel has concluded after determining that the side effects from needless biopsies and treatments hurt many more men than are potentially helped by early detection of cancers.

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