Screening elderly men for prostate cancer More harm than good

Screening elderly men for prostate cancer: More harm than good?

12:00 EDT 10 Apr 2019 | KevinMD

Most men diagnosed with prostate cancer don’t die of the disease. Between 2011 and 2015, 112.6 per 100,000 men per year were diagnosed with prostate cancer in the U.S., but only 19.5 per 100,000 men per year died of the disease over that same period of time. That is still far too many deaths. But […]

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