PSA screening for prostate cancer reduces disease-specific deaths, new review shows

Summary: A big new study shows that the PSA blood test for prostate cancer can actually save lives. For a long time, doctors told men to skip the test. They thought it led to too many unneeded surgeries and bad side effects. Now, researchers looked at data from 800,000 men and found that regular testing does lower the chance of dying from the disease.

But doctors warn that getting tested just once at a health fair or a football tailgate won't help. Men need to work with their doctors over time to track their results. Today, doctors also have better tools, like MRIs and blood markers, to decide if a man really needs treatment or just needs to be watched.

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