Benefits of PSA test to screen for prostate cancer are roughly equal to its harms, expert panel says

Tuesday, April 11, 2017 - 19:31 in Health & Medicine

For men between the ages of 55 and 69, getting screened for prostate cancer is a mixed bag of possible, down-the-road benefits and just-as-possible immediate harms. That means there’s no one-size-fits-all answer to the fraught question of whether to get screened for the most common type of cancer...

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