Tag: USPSTF

  • They got it wrong again – www.phillyburbs.com: Reader Voices

    While prostate cancer is still the second leading cause of death for American men, early detection and advanced treatments have combined to reduce the mortality rate from prostate cancer by nearly 40 percent in the last two decades. During that same time period, we have seen dramatically less metastatic disease than in my earliest days…

  • 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…