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Men who underwent annual prostate cancer screening with prostate-specific antigen testing and digital rectal examination had a 12 percent higher incidence of prostate cancer than men in the control group but the same rate of death from the disease.
The influential U.S. Preventive Services Task Force finds that routine PSA testing does men more harm than good.
Are older patients being over tested? There is little evidence the elderly benefit from colon, breast and prostate cancer screening — and considerable risk.
Screening tests that diagnose illnesses early may actually cause more harm than good, a team of Dartmouth medical researchers argue in a new book. Michelle Andrews interview the authors.
For men with prostate cancer that grows slowly, the treatments may cause more harm than good.
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