Countless Irish men may have needlessly undergone invasive surgery and chemotherapy because a widely-used blood test erroneously said they had life-threatening prostate cancer.
The controversial finding has been made by the US Preventative Services Task Force, which said the use of the prostate-specific antigen blood test is effectively misdiagnosing patients.
Responding to the US research, published in the latest edition of peer review journal Annals of Internal Medicine, the Irish Cancer Society’s head of services, Mairéad Lyons, said that the new findings should be of concern for both doctors and patients. (Examiner) >
Filed under: Cancer, Patients Tagged: Diagnosis, Prostate
