Prostate cancer.
Researchers recommended that men at the end of the fourth decade of life medical examination to see if they
Living with prostate cancer.
The idea raises controversy, since the protein PSA test (PSA) may be ambiguous, leading to false positive results may cause unnecessary anxiety and even undergo a treatment of something benign.
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Swedish researchers said testing for all their men between 45 and 49 would predict nearly half of cases leading to death due to prostate cancer.
The researchers concluded these findings based on a study involving over 21.
No consensus
There is a regular program in Britain to undergo prostate cancer. But over 50 they can if they wish to request a PSA protein test under the State health insurance.
Recent experience showed in Europe to monitor prostate cancer that screening reduced the number of deaths by 20 percent, but this was associated with a high level of "further treatment".
When British National Committee reviewed the testing issue in 2010, once again decided to waive routine screening.
But Hans Lilia and his colleagues at the University of (land) in Sweden and the Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in the United States say there is reason to check out the PSA routinely, and that men in the late 1940s the candidate the most.
The researchers reviewed the study conducted between 1974 and 1984 included Swedish 21270 aged between 27 and 52 years. At the beginning of the study, men donated blood samples. They used these samples stored for PSA tests.
Through these findings, researchers are investigating whether the PSA rates predicted what happened to men in terms of medical outcomes, such as injury had high or positive PSA prostate cancer.
The researchers found that the high percentage of PSA is associated with increased risk of prostate cancer.
Then the researchers check to see whether there are age group are best for men.
The balance of risks
The researchers concluded that the prostate antigen testing at a very early age-less than 45 years-not only a limited number of cases of cancer which led to death.
As to defer testing until after the age of 50 has resulted in many missed opportunities to detect the disease.
Either tests between the ages of 45 and 49-year-old has made 44 percent of cases leading to death.
The study recorded injury 1369 prostate cancer, 241 people were late and the death of 162 others.
The researchers say that the prostate antigen testing on all men from the mid to late 1940s. For those who have high test result be must carry out checks regularly or to take treatment if necessary.
Either the normal examination results come, it can wait until the early 1950s for the examination again.
The researchers said in the British Journal of medicine "at least half the men of all the classification they are low probability of infection, probably do not need to make over the prostate-specific antigen tests, three for the rest of their lives."
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