Tag: "PSA"

WAPC Responds to Updated Recommendations on PSA Screening

As you have probably seen by now, last Friday the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) released draft recommendations downgrading prostate specific antigen (PSA) testing to a “grade D recommendation.” In other words, they recommend against screening in healthy men that “do not have symptoms that are highly suspicious for prostate cancer, regardless of age, [...]

PLCO Testing and Screening

A Joint Statement from America’s Prostate Cancer Advocacy, Education, and Support Organizations

Since 1993, when the PLCO trial was started, we have awaited the results of this trial with eager anticipation, as have others. The initial report of the results of this study — and those of a comparable European trial — published last week in the New England Journal of Medicine have told us two things…