Quick Read: Stop Doing the PSA Test. Now.

A federal task force issued its final decision: no more routine PSA tests for men of any age. Dr. Otis Brawley, chief medical officer of the American Cancer Society told NPR's Shots blog, "A goodly proportion of men who have localized prostate cancer actually have a disease that will never kill them if left alone. More than a million men were needlessly cured of their prostate cancer over the last 20 years."

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• Source: Latimes

The PSA test should be abandoned as a prostate cancer screening tool, a government advisory panel has concluded after determining that the side effects from needless biopsies and treatments hurt many more men than are potentially helped by early detection of cancers.

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