Prostate cancer screening effectiveness
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Welcome to Public Health Moment from the University of Minnesota. Being screened for prostate cancer does not appear to reduce your chance of dying from the disease. That’s according to a new report from the from the Prostate, Lung, Colorectal, and Ovarian (PLCO) Cancer Screening Trial than 76,000 men. Tim Church, a University of Minnesota expert on cancer screenings, was the study’s lead researcher. <clip: “The key finding is that for 7-year mortality…than the group that was just offered usual care.”> The finding is important because there are negative consequences to screening, Church says. <Clip: “One needs to do a prostate biopsy…such as impotence and incontinence.”> For John Finnegan and Public Health Moment, I’m Mark Engebretson.
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Engebretson, Mark; Tim Church. (2009). Prostate cancer screening effectiveness. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/257584.
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