Roundtable Recommendations

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In light of the recent draft recommendations against the use of PSA

screening for prostate cancer in healthy men made by the US Preventive

Services Task Force (USPSTF), members of the Prostate Cancer Roundtable have

come together to express their disappointment. The Roundtable has formally

submitted comments to USPSTF expressing that their draft recommendation:

.. Fails to accurately convey the message that the Task Force appears to be

making - that the choice to be tested for prostate cancer is an individual

one that should be made between a man and his doctor based on complete and

accurate data,

.. Discourages appropriate individual decision-making by doctors and their

patients, and

.. Ignores facts associated with the situations faced by a significant number

of men in well-defined groups who are at the highest risk of clinically

significant disease and at additional risk of dying from prostate cancer if

it is not treated early.

Read the full comments submitted by the Prostate Cancer Roundtable here.

http://www.prostatecancerroundtable.net/category/news/

Kathy Meade Goulait

VPCC