Overdiagnosis of Prostate Cancer Widespread, Study Finds

Over the last 20 years, the number of men who have been diagnosed with prostate cancer has increased, due in large part to widespread screening using the prostate-specific antigen PSA blood test. A new study published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute shows many of those men – more than a million, by the researchers’ calculations – may not have benefitted from that diagnosis.

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