© 2003 by Oxford University Press
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PSA Screening in Elderly Men
Despite the overall controversy regarding prostate-specific antigen (PSA) screening for prostate cancer, there has been general agreement that elderly men (i.e., those aged 75 years or older) should not be screened. Lu-Yao et al. (p. 1792) looked at PSA screening in the context of cancer screening in general by examining the responses of participants in the 2000 National Health Interview Survey. They found that the rate of PSA screening among elderly men was 32.5%, which was greater than that of fecal occult blood screening among elderly men (22.8%), but comparable with that of annual Pap smear screening
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