Tag: PSA screening

  • Urologists Condemn Task Forces Anti-PSA Testing Stance

    The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) on May 21 released its final recommendations on PSA-based screening forprostate cancer (PCa), which advises against the practice and gives it a grade D rating, meaning the task force believes there is “moderate or high certainty that the service has no net benefit or that the harms outweigh…

  • PSA screening lowers risk of finding advanced prostate cancer

    UroToday – European Urology – Prostate Cancer Screening Decreases the Absolute Risk of Being Diagnosed with Advanced Prostate Cancer—Results from a Prospective, Population-Based Randomized Controlled Trial Conclusions: Even though the reduction in metastasis at the time of diagnosis seen in the present study is a prerequisite for a successful prostate cancer-screening program, the ultimate outcome…