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10-08-2011, 04:10 AM | #1 | ||
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HealthDay - THURSDAY, Oct. 6 (HealthDay News) -- The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force is preparing to recommend that men no longer get screened for prostate cancer by undergoing prostate specific antigen -- or PSA -- testing, CNN reported Thursday evening, citing a "source privy to the task force deliberations."
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10-10-2011, 09:05 AM | #2 | |||
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Sounds to me like just another case of medicine by politics instead of science. Doc My colleagues concur:
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10-10-2011, 09:44 PM | #3 | |||
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There is 3 generations of family history for prostate cancer, so I shall continue to screen annually.
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10-12-2011, 11:27 AM | #4 | ||
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Was announced on CNN this AM that Vit E supplements might increase the risk of prostate cancer, whats a person to believe anymore
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