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What is an 'over diagnosis' in prostate cancer?

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What is an 'over diagnosis' in prostate cancer?

One of the controversies in screening for prostrate cancer is that with the blood test that we use, called the PSA, it may detect a small cancer that perhaps would never cause a problem for a given man in his lifetime. Therefore if we search out and discover prostate cancer in a large number of men, we may find cancers that in fact would never cause a problem for these men in their lifetime.

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