Florida Alliance for Patient Care and Access

Recommendation Will Turn Back 20 Years of Prostate Cancer Efforts

Published in Cancer Weekly, October 25th, 2011

2011 OCT 25 -- The Florida Alliance for Patient Care and Access (FAPCA), representing nearly 200 physicians who treat more than 250,000 patients annually across Florida, encourages men to continue following current recommendations for prostate cancer screening.

Last week, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommended healthy men should no longer receive prostate-specific antigen (PSA) blood tests as part of routine cancer screening.

This panel does not include urologists or oncologists, and no new research has been cited that would call for this drastic change in prostate cancer testing recommendations since the USPSTF...

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Source: Cancer Weekly (2011-10-25)

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