A Top Professor Calls the Prostate Blood Test Useless. Other Experts Disagree. So What Should Men Do? ; Doctors Have Been Using the Psa Blood Test As an Indicator of Prostate Cancer - a Disease That Kills 10,000 Men in Britain Every Year - Since the Mid-1980s. But Last Week a Leading Professor at Stanford University Medical School in the U.S. Said the Test Was 'All but Useless' in Predicting Serious Cases of Prostate Cancer. So, Is the Psa Test Causing More Harm Than Good? Good Health

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WHAT IS THE PROSTATE GLAND?

ONLY men have a prostate gland.

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A Top Professor Calls the Prostate Blood Test Useless. Other Experts Disagree. So What Should Men Do? ; Doctors Have Been Using the Psa Blood Test As an Indicator of Prostate Cancer - a Disease That Kills 10,000 Men in Britain Every Year - Since the Mid-1980s. But Last Week a Leading Professor at Stanford University Medical School in the U.S. Said the Test Was 'All but Useless' in Predicting Serious Cases of Prostate Cancer. So, Is the Psa Test Causing More Harm Than Good? Good Health

It is about the size of a golf ball and is at the base of the bladder.

It is a sex gland responsible for producing semen.

WHAT IS PSA?

PROSTATE Specific Antigen (PSA) is a protein that the prostate prod...

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