Most men told to skip PSA test Consensus reached on guidelines Rethinking Cancer Guidelines New Data Emerges Harms of Prostate Screening Final advice Federal panel against routine prostate Panel Suggests Ending Routine for cancer should be dropped task force says and the It's hard understand risk Experts explain why is not worth limiting screening are widely ignored Test Gets a Failing Grade pans disconnect First breast now Daily Roundup Parents Aren't Home Plan Party... Twitter Video 5/21 found unreliable lessons from Joplin finds U.S. End

PSA test for prostate cancer should be dropped, task force says An expert advisory panel argues that needless treatments hurt many more men than are helped by early detection, but some doctors take issue. The PSA test should be abandoned as a prostate cancer screening tool, a government advisory panel has concluded after determining that the side effects from needless biopsies and treatments hurt many more men than are potentially helped by early detection ... Panel: Routine prostate test more harm than good Gov't panel cites risk of side effects from treatment of non-lethal tumors found with PSA blood test Health experts: Routine PSA tests for prostate cancer not good for health Task force says PSA test may give false positives and often diagnoses older men who die of other diseases before prostate cancer Prostate cancer and the PSA test: It's hard to understand risk The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force has released new guidelines for prostate cancer screening — urging doctors not to use the popular PSA test to detect the disease. PSA screening for prostate cancer gets thumbs-down from federal panel A government panel recommended on Monday against screening healthy men for prostate cancer with the PSA blood test, concluding that harm from the widely used test outweighed its benefits in all age groups. Video: 5/21: PSA test found unreliable, hard lessons from Joplin A top government panel says the PSA test for prostate cancer is unreliable giving a falsely positive result 80 percent of the time; Then, a study on the relationship between U.S. allies and the Afghans they are training provides insight into possible reasons behind attacks from the Afghan soldiers; Also, Joplin, Mo. has spent the last year rebuilding from a deviating tornado and one Joplin ... No routine PSA tests for men, panel rules A top panel of U.S. medical experts has issued a final decision on a long-debated men's health controversy, concluding that no man of any age should routinely be screened for prostate cancer using the popular PSA test. Halting PSA testing the right thing to do, bioethicist says The recommendation Monday by the prestigious United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) that the widely used PSA test for prostate cancer no longer be used for men of any age is likely to be met with howling. Consensus reached on PSA test guidelines "The guideline is about driving home the point that patients need to be engaged" in the decision-making process. Prostate-Cancer Test Not Worth Risk, Advisory Panel Says The PSA prostate-cancer test used by half of U.S. men older than 40 carries more risks than benefits and shouldn't be used to diagnose the disease, a U.S. panel said, reaffirming its earlier advice.
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