Be Informed About Prostate Cancer and the PSA Test
Since the US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) officially recommended, in 2012, against routine-specific antigen (PSA), the screening procedure plummeted. Now, they are reversing their recommendation to ditch the test.
It all started with a research study published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2009 that showed no difference in mortality rates between men who received PSA screening and those who didn’t…