New screening guidelines for prostate cancer recommend that men be tested in their 40s, rather than in their 50s as was previously advised. The new guidelines, which were released by Prostate Cancer Canada on Wednesday, recommend that men should get a baseline Prostate-specific Antigen (PSA) test – the screening test for prostate cancer-- in their 40s. They also suggest that the decision to end PSA testing should be based on individual risk, rather than an "arbitrary" cut-off age, such as 70. Read more here.
Read Prostate Cancer Canada's position paper here.
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