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Prostate cancer screening game-changer

Feb 25, 4:32PM by Jonathan LaPook Topics Health Notes
Prostate Cancer CBS
Dr. Jon LaPook is a medical correspondent for CBS News.

An important new study out yesterday should lead to far fewer prostate biopsies.

First, some background. A lot more men will get prostate cancer than will die from it. On autopsy studies of men who die from other causes at age 70, about 40 percent have microscopic evidence of prostate cancer. 

But only about 3 percent of men die from prostate cancer.

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