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 for cancer should be dropped task force says Panel Suggests Ending Routine Men Can Still Ask Test and Some Should Doctors Say the It's hard understand risk limiting screening are widely ignored A.M. Vitals Recommendation Task Force Recommends Against Psychological Science explains uproar over prostatecancer screenings Experts explain why is not worth Gets a Failing Grade pans disconnect First breast now

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. Panel's PSA test recommendations spark debate among doctors, cancer survivors New guidelines from U.S. Preventive Services Task Force saying healthy men should skip prostate cancer screening are condemned by American Urological Association doctors 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 Expert Medical Panel Urges Doctors To Stop PSA Cancer Screenings An expert US medical panel has given its final word on the PSA test, a controversial screening procedure used to detect prostate cancer in men, recommending that doctors should no longer perform the test on healthy men because they are more likely to be harmed by the test itself than be helped. The US Preventive Services Task Force ( USPSTF ) gave its recommendation on the stoppage of the PSA ... 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: 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 ... 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. 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. 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.
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