Relaxed PSA screening guidelines may be leading to more late-stage cancer diagnoses, and the current recommendations updated to address this concern might preferentially serve white men, a new study suggests.
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American Cancer Society . One of the only available ways to screen for prostate cancer is by measuring levels of a protein called prostate specific antigen . But for years, doctors have debated the usefulness of this test, arguing that not all prostate cancer needs to be diagnosed, since it's not always lethal, and doesn't always need treatment.
"Many cases are extremely slow growing. Patients will die with prostate cancer, but not necessarily from prostate cancer," said Dr. Moshe Ornstein, a genitourinary oncologist at Cleveland Clinic.altogether, citing that universal testing may inflict harm due to overtreatment., meaning it has spread to distant organs and is no longer curable.STOCK PHOTO/Frame Stock Footage/Shutterstock
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