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Show: October 23, 2011:
- Prostate Screening Controversy
- Moderate Exercise Helps Middle-Aged Women
- Making Decisions about the Gardasil Vaccine
- A Little Exercise is Better Than None
- A Heart Surgeon Grants a Wish
- Book: In Stitches
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Prostate Screening Controversy
Host: David Crabb, MD
Interview: Mike Koch, MD
John P. Donohue Professor of Urology
Chairman, Department of Urology
IU School of Medicine
Recently a U.S. government health panel recommended healthy men not receive a common prostate cancer screening test, the prostate-specific antigen or PSA test. The panel concluded that the PSA test doesn’t save lives and can lead to treatments with serious side effects such as impotence and incontinence.
Indiana University professor of urology Mike Koch strongly disagrees with the recommendation. In a chat with Sound Medicine’s David Crabb, MD, Dr. Koch will explain his objections to the panel’s conclusion and make his own recommendations for men. Dr. Mike Koch chairs the Department of Urology at the IU School of Medicine.
Additional Resources:
- Find out about IU urologist Dr. Mike Koch.
- Read -- and comment on -- the new PSA test recommendation from the United States Preventive Services Task Force.
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