Survey: Men may not be adequately involved in decisions about prostate cancer screening
Tuesday, September 29, 2009 - 10:21
in Health & Medicine
Men largely make decisions about prostate cancer screening based on conversations with their clinicians, but these discussions often do not include information about the risks of testing in addition to the benefits, according to a report in the 28 September issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. A second report in the same issue uses statistical modelling to estimate the benefits and risks of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) screening in men of various ages and risk levels...