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When should screening start for prostate cancer?
Star Health Desk
Star Health Desk
A nationwide study in Sweden estimates the elevated risk of advanced or fatal prostate cancer among relatives of men with the disease, providing new data that could help refine guidelines for the age at which screening should begin. Mahdi Fallah and Elham Kharazmi of the German Cancer Research Centre (DKFZ) in Heidelberg, Germany, and colleagues presented these new findings in the open-access journal
PLOS Medicine.
Clinical guidelines for the age to start prostate cancer screening aim to ensure that the benefits of identifying the disease early outweigh the risks of diagnosing and treating cancer that will not harm the patient. Current guidelines note that men with a family history of prostate cancer have a greater risk and should begin screening early. However, due to the lack of sufficient data, the age at which early screening should begin has been unclear.