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The UK just said no to screening every man. Here is why - and what it means for your family.
I want to bring this to the community before it runs away on social media. It is not as bad as it sounds.
The UK National Screening Committee announced this week it will not roll out prostate cancer screening to all men.
First reaction: that sounds wrong. Men's Health Month starts tomorrow.
But the reason they gave is one I have been talking about for years.
For every man whose life is saved by mass PSA screening, around 10 men are treated for a cancer that was never going to hurt them. Never grow. Never spread. Never kill. And those 10 men go through surgery or radiation anyway. And they live with the side effects.
This is not the committee being careless. This is them being honest about a genuinely difficult problem - we cannot reliably tell which cancers need treatment and which ones can be safely left alone.
The answer is not 'ignore your prostate.' The answer is to know your personal risk. Family history. Genetic markers. A conversation with your doctor about whether testing makes sense for you specifically.
Has anyone here been through this? A doctor who said 'wait and see' - or a test that led to treatment you look back on and question? I would genuinely like to hear your experience.
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