Overdiagnosis since introduction of prostate cancer screening
Monday, August 31, 2009 - 17:35
in Health & Medicine
The introduction of prostate-antigen screening, or PSA, has resulted in over 1 million additional men over the last 23 years being diagnosed and treated for prostate cancer -most of whom were likely overdiagnosed, researchers reported in a new study published online August 31 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.