Archive for March, 2011

Back to the 1950s with New Prostate Guidelines

Posted on March 1, 2011. Filed under: Breast Cancer, Cancer, Preventive Care, Prostate, Recommended Medical Guidelines | Tags: breast cancer, cancer treatment, mammogram, prostate biopsies, Prostate cancer, prostate cancer study, PSA test, PSA velocity |

A new study on prostate biopsies from The Journal of the National Cancer Institute wants to take us back 60 years. The  study not only concluded that using PSA velocity for prostate cancer detection is ineffective and leads to “unnecessary” biopsies — but it also contends that all references to it should be removed from [...]