Fewer U.S. men got prostate biopsies and surgery after new
recommendations steered most men away from routine prostate cancer
screening, researchers reported Wednesday.
Their findings add to a growing body of research
that's adding to the debate about prostate cancer screening and often
leaving men and their doctors more confused than informed. At issue is
whether screening the general population of men for their second leading
cause of cancer death does more harm than good.
The latest report, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association's JAMA Surgery, shows the new guidelines have indeed cut back on the number of procedures that men are undergoing.
"Practice has followed the guidelines," said Dr. Jim Hu, a urologic
oncologist at NewYork-Presbyterian and Weill Cornell Medicine who helped
lead the research team.
But Hu and his colleagues say they are worried
that some men with dangerous cancers may be slipping through the cracks
and argue that the highly controversial recommendations may have gone
too far.
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