To screen or not to screen?

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In 1995 Dr Stuttaford used his column to advocate a battery of yearly screening tests—from liver function tests to abdominal ultrasound scans—and suggested that these tests would “set your mind at rest,” ignoring the mental distress that screening tests can cause (BMJ 1995;310: 1417). One of the tests he proposed in 1995 was a blood test for prostatic specific antigen (PSA), which is often raised in prostate cancer.

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