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2. Prostate cancer screening - Wikipedia

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   Prostate cancer screening is the screening process used to detect undiagnosed prostate cancer in men without signs or symptoms. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] When abnormal prostate tissue or cancer is found early, it may be easier to treat and cure, but it is unclear if early detection reduces mortality rates.

3. 5 Things Men With an Enlarged Prostate Need to Know ... - AOL

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   “Currently the American Urological Association recommends offering a baseline prostate screening test to people between ages 45 to 50 years, and possibly earlier for men at increased risk of ...

4. Prostate cancer - Wikipedia

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   Most medical guidelines recommend that men at high risk of prostate cancer (due to age, family history, ethnicity, or prior evidence of high blood PSA levels) be counseled on the risks and benefits of PSA testing, and be offered access to screening tests. [12] Medical guidelines generally recommend against screening for men over age 70, or with ...

5. Active surveillance of prostate cancer - Wikipedia

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   In a separate study of men from the pre prostate cancer screening era managed with watchful waiting (56% over age 70 years), progression to distant metastasis or prostate cancer death was 13.9% and 12.3%, respectively for Gleason score 6 or below, but considerably higher at 18.2 and 22.7%, 30% and 20%, 44.4% and 55.6% for Gleason 3+4, 4+3, and ...

6. Prostate biopsy - Wikipedia

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   Additionally many prostate cancers detected by screening develop so slowly that they would not cause problems during a man's lifetime, making the complications due to treatment unnecessary. The most frequent side effect of the procedure is blood in the urine (31%). [2] Other side effects may include infection (0.9%) and death (0.2%). [2]

7. Prostate cancer shouldn’t be a death sentence. But for a ...

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   Concerned that the blood test was doing more harm than good, in 2012, the U.S. Preventive Services Taskforce changed its guidelines to recommend against the use of it for prostate cancer screening.