They found 64 percent of those men had not discussed the pluses and minuses of PSA tests with their doctors, or the scientific uncertainty of their effect. Of the rest, about half had talked only about the advantages of screening.
About 44 percent of study participants hadn’t been screened for prostate cancer in the past five years. The majority of those – 88 percent – reported no discussions regarding that choice, according to findings published in the Annals of Family Medicine.
via Shared decision-making uncommon for PSA tests | Reuters.
There was a study done in the Annal of Family Medicine that found that almost half of men have not been screened for prostate cancer in the last 5 years. Most of these did not have a discussion with their doctors as to whether they should be screened.
As a urologist who specializes in prostate cancer, I am concerned that we will have more men presenting with metastatic prostate cancer in the years to come.