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Prostate Cancer Screening at National Cancer Institute Comprehensive and Clinical Cancer Centers
Affiliations of authors: Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University, Washington, DC (KLT, NLA, MS, JC); Department of Surgery, Urology Division, Howard University, Washington, DC (CA).
Correspondence to: Kathryn L. Taylor, PhD, Georgetown University, 2233 Wisconsin Ave., Suite 317, Washington, DC 20007 (e-mail: taylorkl@georgetown.edu)
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While the professional community continues to debate the efficacy of prostate cancer screening, thousands of asymptomatic men in the United States receive screening in free programs held each September during Prostate Cancer Awareness Week (1). However, many men who seek prostate cancer screening do not understand the limitations of screening or the medical community's disagreements on whether screening reduces prostate cancer mortality and
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