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Over 90% of Prostate Cancers Detected Through PSA Screening ...

...would be diagnosed with The PSA test measures proteins that are produced and shed by the prostate.

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...

Report studies men's treatment decisions

...The findings are published in the May 1 issue of CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society.

The study said its findings suggest that a lack of medical evidence and consistent, comprehensive messages about therapeutic options compel men to turn to a wide variety of popular and biased sources, which influence their decision.

This approach often results in treatments that do not generally reflect patients' goals.

Despite new treatment options for Physicians and family, as well as race and culture may affect patients' decisions, the study said.

It is very likely, say the authors, that patients "have significant limitations in their ability to identify biased information, as well as their ability to weigh complex information about the outcomes that are important to them." Copyright 2006 United Press International, Inc.

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