Wednesday, May 30, 2012
10.11.11 No major medical group recommends routine PSA blood tests to check men for prostate cancer, and now a government panel is saying they do more harm than good and healthy men should no longer receive the tests as part of routine cancer screening. The panel's guidelines had long advised men over 75 to forgo the tests and the new recommendation extends that do-not-screen advice to healthy men of all ages.  Elito Kamenitz, The Times-PicayuneWest Jefferson Medical Center participates in Prostate Cancer Awareness Month. Steve Haik, right, a company representative for the da Vinci, a machine that preforms a less invasive prostate procedure, lets visitor Clifford West try the controls of the demo machine.  Read the entire article at the Associated Press

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