‘What about that article in the Guardian about the study on the PSA test? Can I please have the new urine test (PCA3) instead? Will I be OK if the test result is normal?’ are the kind of questions that I have been asked about the prostate cancer screening and the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test. This article should help the reader to have an informed discussion with men requesting the PSA test.
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