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Making the grade: The newest US Preventive Services Task Force prostate cancer screening recommendation

Richard M. Hoffman, Robert Joseph Volk, Andrew M. D. Wolf

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The US Preventive Services Task Force recently issued a draft guideline supporting individualized decision making for prostate cancer screening. Although the authors believe this guideline appropriately reflects changing evidence regarding the benefits and harms of screening, they raise concerns about achieving decision making, interpreting active surveillance data, and initiating screening for African American men.

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The US Preventive Services Task Force recently issued a draft guideline supporting individualized decision making for prostate cancer screening. Although the authors believe this guideline appropriately reflects changing evidence regarding the benefits and harms of screening, they raise concerns about achieving decision making, interpreting active surveillance data, and initiating screening for African American men.

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The US Preventive Services Task Force recently issued a draft guideline supporting individualized decision making for prostate cancer screening. Although the authors believe this guideline appropriately reflects changing evidence regarding the benefits and harms of screening, they raise concerns about achieving decision making, interpreting active surveillance data, and initiating screening for African American men.

Key concepts: Guideline, Task force, Medicine, Prostate cancer screening, Prostate cancer, Cancer screening, Task (project management), Family medicine

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