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Michael Pignone, MD, MPH

Arch Intern Med. 2009;169(17):1554-1556.

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Prostate cancer is common (186 000 new US diagnoses in 2008), causing more than 28 000 deaths per year.¹ Treatment of clinically detected prostate cancer is effective in reducing prostate cancer mortality in men younger than 65 years but not in older men.² However, treatment of prostate cancer is associated with considerable morbidity; approximately 50% of men will have impotence, incontinence, or both after treatment, and a few will die as a result of initial treatment.³

Screening with the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) blood test (with or without digital rectal examination) can detect prostate cancer before it becomes symptomatic. However, screening also results in overdiagnosis; that is, it detects more prostate cancers than would otherwise be clinically recognized. Current methods cannot distinguish with great certainty whether a given cancer will progress, making prostate cancer screening a necessarily crude process at best. The decision about whether to be screened for . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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