Digital rectal exam not recommended for prostate cancer screening
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Prostate cancer screening update 2017
If you follow this blog far enough back you will read early rumblings about the futility of prostate cancer screening. The last ten years has seen a “slow growth” of international guidelines stating that this is something that we probably should NOT be doing… and yet, it remains one of the most common screening… via Prostate…
New prostate cancer screening guidelines – 2016
Here are the new updated guidelines from Cancer Council Australia and the Prostate Foundation of Australia. High powered document. Let us know what you think. A couple of my thoughts – please comment! 2016 Prostate Clinical Practice Guidelines on PSA Testing “Do not offer PSA testing at age 40 years to predict risk of prostate…
FOAM4GP Map – Prostate screening. “What do you suggest doc?”
Prostate screening is a complicated mix of opinions, evidence, emotions, and controversy. There are many stakeholders interested in appropriate prostate screening and it is a question we as Australian GPs get asked regularly about. So what do you do? What should you do? And what do you use to help make the decision with your…
