PSA Testing for #Prostate_Cancer: New Study Supports Benefits | Time.com
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Men trying to follow the advice on whether they should get screened for prostate cancer have long been confused, since guidelines and recommendations keep changing. Now, in the latest analysis of data published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, researchers conclude that testing does help save lives from the disease and is linked to as much as a 32% decrease in prostate cancer deaths, compared to men who aren’t screened.
But that doesn’t mean the debate is over.
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“The controversy over PSA-based screening should no longer be whether it can do good," wrote Andrew Vickers, from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, in an editorial accompanying the study, "but whether we can change our behavior so that it does more good than harm.”
