Early Cancer Detection by Prostate Cancer Screening
Being screened for prostate cancer probably seems like a no-brainer to most health-conscious men, given that the disease is the second-most common cancer in American men as well as the second-most deadly, affecting one in six men.
But earlier this week the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, a panel of primary care experts that issues guidelines about clinical preventive services, recommended against routine prostate cancer screening for men over age 75. The group concluded there wasn’t proof that early detection was saving men’s lives and that the short-term harms outweighed the potential benefits. Read More.