This is a very interesting article. It shows how too much screening can have a detrimental effect by flagging too many benign tumors and causing people to get unnecessary treatment for them. This is NOT to say that men shouldn't be screened for Prostate Cancer.
Routine screening for prostate cancer has resulted in more than 1 million U.S. men being diagnosed with tumors who might otherwise have suffered no ill effects from them, U.S. researchers said on Monday.
They said prostate cancer screening is a double-edged sword, catching serious cancers in a few but causing needless worry and expense for the majority of men, who may be getting treatment for tumors growing too slowly to do any harm.
The team looked to see how many additional men have been diagnosed with prostate cancer since the introduction in 1986 of a widely used blood test for prostate cancer that looked for a prostate-cancer specific antigen, or PSA.
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Prostate cancer screening: More harm than good? - Yahoo! News
Prostate cancer screening: More harm than good?
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