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What to Know About New Prostate Cancer Screening Recommendations

What to Know About New Prostate Cancer Screening Recommendations

New recommendations address prostate cancer screening, which looks for signs of prostate cancer in people who may not have symptoms.

The guidance concerns screening for prostate cancer, a disease that affects the prostate gland.

Whether everyone should be screened has long been controversial.

The available information does not say who issued the recommendations or what they advise.

It also gives no details about who should be screened or when.

The recommendations may shape decisions about screening, but their practical effect cannot be determined from the information provided.

No next steps are specified.

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