NHS Rejects Mass Prostate Cancer Screening, Warning Broader Checks Do More Harm Than Good

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“When you screen all men, you do save some lives… but what they also found was that ten times the number of men will get a diagnosis of cancer that is so slow growing that the treatment will cause more harm than the cancer would.” Early stages of the disease rarely present symptoms, but men still retain the right to request a PSA blood test directly from their GP, says Prostate Cancer UK's director of health services, Amy Rylance. Amy Rylance was speaking to Aasmah Mir in for Jane and Fi on Times Radio. Listen live every Monday to Thursday from 2pm–4pm. Read the best of our journalism: https://www.thetimes.com/ Listen live to Times Radio: https://www.thetimes.com/radio/live Subscribe to The Times and The Sunday Times YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=timesonlinevideo Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/timesandsundaytimes/ Find us on X: https://x.com/thetimes Find us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thetimes/

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