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Prostate screening to be reviewed
Routine prostate cancer screening could cut death rates from the disease by 20%, a major study suggests.
The results, which suggest 2,000 lives a year could be saved in the UK, have prompted a review of the current policy not to offer routine NHS screening.
The study, based on results from 162,000 men, assessed the impact of testing levels of a protein called prostate specific antigen (PSA).
It is published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Read the rest of this entry »