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An influential doctors group is backing off its call for annual prostate cancer screenings after age 50.
“Many men do not need yearly screening,” but each man’s risk should be individually assessed, said Dr. Peter Carroll, who led the panel that wrote the American Urological Association’s new guidelines. They are being issued today.
Some experts have said annual screenings are leading to unnecessary biopsies and treatment with little proof that they save lives.
