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Show: December 19, 2010:
- Rethinking the PSA Prostate Screening Test
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Rethinking the PSA Prostate Screening Test
Host: David Crabb, MD
Interview: Andrew Vickers, PhD, researcher, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York
One medical trend we’ve been following this year has been the questions raised about the value of some forms of routine cancer screening.
Today, we begin with one of those controversies:
The PSA blood test, which has become part of the annual physical for many men over 50, to look for signs of prostate cancer.
The problem with PSA test is that it can’t reveal whether a cancer is fast-growing and dangerous or slow-growing and harmless.
Sound Medicine’s Dr. David Crabb speaks with the author of a recent study to find which men the PSA test might benefit the most.
Dr. Crabb's guest, Dr. Andrew Vickers, is a researcher at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. He says it’s time to re-think the routine PSA test.
Additional Resources:
- Read the article, Simplifying the Decision for a Prostate Screening, in the NYT health blog.
- Read more about Dr. Andrew Vickers research at Sloan-Kettering.
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