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Just say no to the PSA prostate cancer test.

Publication: HealthFacts
Publication Date: 01-APR-09 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Just say no to the PSA prostate cancer test.(prostate-specific antigen)

Article Excerpt
"Studies Fail to Settle Prostate Screening Debate" (Boston Globe); "Prostate Screening Saves Lives" (BBC). "Prostate Cancer Screening May Not Reduce Deaths" (Washington Post).

These are just some of the headlines for the big health story last month about the PSA (prostate-specific antigen) screening blood test. The results from two long awaited clinical trials were released early and simultaneously by The New England Journal of Medicine on March 18. Despite the seemingly conflicting messages of these sample headlines, it is now clear that symptomless men should consider refusing this test.

The larger of the two trials was conducted in several European countries. It found that the lifesaving benefit of PSA screening is far more modest than previously thought ... and the risk of harm is very high. For every 1,400 men who regularly had a PSA screening test over the ten-year period of the European trial, one man avoided death from prostate...

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