Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Prostate Cancer Overdiagnosis
One of the hardest things to explain to patients is the whole deal about overdiagnosis of prostate cancer in men. More than 1 million men in the U.S. have been diagnosed with and treated for prostate cancer since that test has been used. That would be good news, except for the fact that the "vast majority of these 1 million men did not benefit from early detection," according to a new study