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Is psa useful in healthy 60 yo?
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New recommendations: You are asking a hotly debated question that recently several healthcare organizations aafp and us preventive task force are now saying that it should not be recommended as it poses more problems with the information than it does true benefits of knowing.
Answered 9/12/2014
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No: Us preventive task force has determined that screening of healthy men with psa is not useful.
Answered 11/6/2013
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