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Early test for cancer isn’t always best course

 |  By HealthLeaders Media Staff  
   August 14, 2008

For years patients have been told that early cancer detection saves lives, but a panel of leading medical experts recently offered exactly the opposite advice. They urged doctors to stop screening older men for prostate cancer, and concluded that for men 75 and older screening for prostate cancer does more harm than good.

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