PSA test not recommended for men over 75
wrote an interesting post today on
Here’s a quick excerpt
Screening for prostate cancer is most often performed using PSA tests and digital rectal exams and while the PSA test is more likely to detect prostate cancer than the digital rectal exam, prostate cancers that are found with a PSA test take years to affect the health. Most prostate cancers that grow serious enough to cause death take more than 10 years to do so and the researchers say as a 75-year-old man has an average life expectancy of about 10 years he is more likely to die from other cau
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