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Thursday, June 19, 2003Half of all prostate cancers picked up by a popular blood test are "irrelevant" and will never become life-threatening, a major new study suggests. The report estimates that 50 per cent of men aged 55 to 67 who are diagnosed with prostate cancer after a yearly PSA blood-screening test would not have shown symptoms of the disease during their lifetime. The PSA, or prostate-specific antigen test, measures a protein produced by the prostate gland; rising levels can mean cancer. The findings suggest thousands of men could be undergoing treatments that can leave them impotent and incontinent for a cancer that might never have killed them. The study is here. posted by Sydney on 6/19/2003 08:15:00 AM 0 comments 0 Comments: |
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