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Developments in Prostate Cancer Screening

Category: News & Politics
Duration: 00:24:01
Publish Date: 2018-07-02 12:00:00
Description:

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recently finalized their recommendation that men ages 55 to 69 should speak with their health care providers about prostate cancer screening using the prostate-specific antigen, or PSA. We’ll discuss the latest on the procedure, which has a significant problem with false positives. We discuss the latest on the procedure, which has a significant problem with false positives, and hear about developments in research on prostate cancer.
Guests:
Dr. Paul Alpert,
clinical professor, department of urology, UCSF Medical Center
Dr. Mark S. Litwin, professor of urology and public health and urology department chair, UCLA

Related Links:
New Evidence for the Benefit of Prostate-specific Antigen Screening: Data From 400,887 Kaiser Permanente Patients (Urology Journal)

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