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Men Can Still Ask for PSA Test, and Some Should, Doctors Say TUESDAY, May 22 (HealthDay News) -- Although a U.S. advisory panel no longer recommends that men routinely undergo prostate cancer screening with a PSA blood test, men should ask their doctors for the exam if they're uncomfortable without monitoring, health experts say. 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 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 ... Prostate Cancer Screening: Men Should Forgo PSA Testing, Panel Advises Men should not get routinely screened for prostate cancer using the PSA test, a government panel recommends. The panel finds that there is little evidence that testing for PSA, or prostate specific antigen, saves men's lives, while causing too much unnecessary harm from the treatment of tumors that would never have killed them. The advice, [...] Task Force: PSA Test for Prostate Cancer Should Be Dropped The United States Preventive Services Task Force issued their final recommendation on the PSA prostate cancer-screening test Monday, recommending against routine PSA exams for men of any age. 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. Video: The great PSA test debate A government panel says men shouldn't have routine PSA screening tests for prostate cancer. The American Cancer Society's Dr. Otis Brawley says the tests may kill more men than they save, but former Notre Dame basketball coach and prostate cancer survivor Digger Phelps says a PSA test helped save his life. 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.
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