Men's health
- 13 January 1996
- Vol. 312 (7023) , 69-70
- https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.312.7023.69
Abstract
The growing interest has largely concentrated on aspects of men's health relating to diseases of the prostate and testicle. This sex specific approach encourages comparisons with the women's health movement, with campaigns for national screening programmes for prostatic and testicular cancer analogous to the screening programme for breast cancer. Such an approach has its place. Prostate disease is extremely common, but there is little agreement about effective treatment.3 Half of all men have benign prostatic hyperplasia by the time they are 60 years old, and 90% by the time they are …Keywords
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