American Cancer Society revises guidelines, urges routine PSA screening for prostate cancer
In a major change to screening guidelines, the American Cancer Society recommended on Thursday that American men between ages 50 and 69 at an average risk of prostate cancer should test their prostate-specific antigen (PSA) blood levels every two years.
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The prior guidelines, released in 2010, left testing for average-risk men to their discretion, after assessing cancer risk with a physician.
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