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Men say they want prostate cancer test, despite risks

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPTF) recommends that middle-aged men not receive the prostate-specific antigen test (PSA) because research has shown that the benefits of testing do not outweigh the risks, which include false positive results. More than three quarters of the men who participated in the survey said they were not aware of the new recommendation, said Linda Squiers, Ph.D., senior health communication scientist at RTI International in Rockville, MD, and lead author of the study…