Study finds more PSA screening awareness needed among high-risk groups

Monday, August 11, 2008 - 04:56 in Health & Medicine

In one of the first examinations of PSA screening in younger men, a study published by researchers at Duke Medicine's Prostate Center finds that one-fifth of men under age 50 reported undergoing a prostate specific antigen (PSA) test to detect prostate cancer in the previous year, yet only one in three young black men reported ever having a PSA test in the previous year.

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