Friday, October 7, 2011

Prostate screening resources for you and your patients

According to an article in today's New York Times, U.S. Preventive Services Task Force officials have confirmed that they plan to release an updated recommendation statement on screening for prostate cancer early next week that changes their current "I" (insufficient evidence) statement to a "D" grade ("recommends against"). Our AFP By Topic collection on Cancer includes several resources that may help you explain this upcoming change in practice to your colleagues and patients:

Cochrane for Clinicians: PSA Testing Is Not Effective



Patient Education handout from FamilyDoctor.org: Prostate Cancer
Posted by kennylin at 9:13 AM

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  1. The new draft Task Force statement on prostate cancer screening is now posted to the USPSTF website: http://www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf12/prostate/draftrecprostate.htm

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