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New prostate cancer test advice overturns dogma (AP)

10/07/2011 majac Your Health Matters

In this Sept. 13, 2011 photo provided by the University of Chicago Medical Center, Dr. Gautam Jayram assists during prostate cancer surgery, watching an internal video of the patient’s body, at the University of Chicago Medical Center in Chicago. No major medical group recommends routine PSA (prostate-specific antigen) blood tests to check men for prostate cancer, and now a government panel is saying they do more harm than good and healthy men should no longer receive the tests as part of routine cancer screening. The recommendation by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, being made public on Friday, Oct. 7, 2011 will not come as a surprise to cancer specialists. The task force concluded there's little if any mortality benefit. But there is harm from routine screening: impotence, incontinence, infections, even death that can come from the biopsies, surgery and radiation, according to Dr. Virginia Moyer of the Baylor College of Medicine, who heads the task force. (AP Photo/University of Chicago Medical Center, Bruce Powell)AP – Men finally may be getting a clearer message about undergoing PSA screening for prostate cancer: Don’t do it.

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