Prostate Cancer

PSA levels are generally elevated when This is referred to as “over-diagnosis,” or detection of a clinically insignificant cancer.  As a result of over-diagnosis, some individuals receive cancer diagnoses and treatments that they might otherwise have avoided.As an example of over-diagnosis, consider an individual who has cancer, but who will die of another cause before the cancer causes noticeable health problems.

This may happen particularly with slower growing cancers.Screen-detection of such cancers would lead to unnecessary cancer treatment.

This sort of situation is generally not possible to predict in advance, but understanding the frequency of o...

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