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Screening For Prostate Cancer
Article updated and reviewed by Larry A. Weinrauch, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School. Editorial review provided by VeriMed Healthcare Network on May 10, 2005.
The goal of screening for prostate cancer is to detect and effectively treat those cancers most likely to cause morbidity or mortality if left untreated. (Also see Health Profile:
Prostate cancer is the most common
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