Psst! PSA test secret (It’s a good idea)

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If you’re a guy pondering whether you need a PSA, or prostate-specific antigen, test, the new flap about prostate cancer screening could leave you with mental whiplash. “Skip it — PSA tests do more harm than good,” an advisory panel from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, or USPSTF, recently concluded. “Get one; it could save your life,” counter many doctors and the American Urological Association.

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