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Prostate Cancer
Hopkins Study Recommends New Prostate Cancer Test Guidelines
May 26th, 1997
A team of researchers led by Johns Hopkins finds most men between 50 and 70 don't need an annual prostate specific antigen (PSA) test for prostate cancer because their risk of having a noncurable cancer that can be detected is so small. "Many men need to be tested only once every two years, a change that could dramatically reduce the costs of prostate cancer screening in the United States," says H. Ballentine Carter, M.D., associate professor of urology at the Johns Hopkins Brady Urological Institute. The study, published in the May 14, 1997, issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, showed PSA testing every two years is sufficient to...
Source: Cancer Weekly (1997-05-26)
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