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The pros and cons of PSA tests for prostate cancer for midlife and older men (www.npr.org)
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News that Joe Biden has advanced prostate cancer has revived long-standing questions about the benefits versus the harms of a blood test that screens for the most commonly diagnosed cancer among men in the U.S.

Prostate-specific antigen, or PSA, screening tests are an imperfect tool for detecting prostate cancer, doctors and public health experts say.

Part of the problem is identifying and treating aggressive cancers like Biden's while not unnecessarily treating men with slow-growing cancers unlikely to sicken them. Autopsies found the disease to be so widespread that more than one-third of white men and half of Black men in their 70s had prostate cancers that would never do any harm.

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[–] mountaincalledmonkey@sopuli.xyz 13 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

I would much rather have a false positive, and have to take more tests to confirm a diagnosis, than having a cancerous prostate and not knowing until it was advanced and more invasive procedures were called for