The test for prostate cancer has long been obsolete - so say experts from the international group in the field of public health and urology. The accuracy of this study gives a very rough, but the harm can bring very real. This opinion was expressed scientists in the scientific paper published in The BMJ.
In studies on the issue involved 721,000 volunteers-men. As a result, long-term observations, doctors found that the test for prostate cancer, although it reduced the% of mortality from the disease, but only slightly.
Now take a similar testing healthy men is not recommended. However, experts admit that when aggravated heredity oncology such screening would be superfluous. But you need to discuss before testing with your doctor the pros and cons of possible research.
On PSA-screening is by far the most common way to test for prostate cancer. However, it has one very significant drawback - a large number of false-positive results. And this leads to a completely unnecessary surgery, where it is only about a benign tumor.
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