Why discourage routine prostate cancer PSA test?

A federal advisory panel wanted to figure out whether widespread PSA testing saves enough lives to justify the considerable medical fallout of the test. The panel said no, for several reasons.For the last 17 years, millions of men and their doctors have relied on the PSA test to warn them of early signs of prostate cancer, a disease that strikes one out of every six men. Rudolph W. Giuliani, Joe Torre and others have credited the simple blood test with saving their lives.

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