Word: catalona
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Dates: during 1991-1991
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...protein called prostate-specific antigen, or PSA, will soon be offered to men over 50 who are at special risk for the disease, including blacks and those with a family history of the ailment. Some experts contend that all older men should be tested. Predicts lead author Dr. William Catalona, at Washington University in St. Louis: "PSA should dramatically alter the statistics on prostate cancer...
...method is by no means foolproof. Catalona stresses that 21% of the men in his study with prostate cancer actually had "normal" PSA levels. Thus the test should be used only in combination with a rectal exam, he said, and even then some cancers will be missed...
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