(MINOT, ND)-Trinity Health Urologist Ryan Hedgepeth, MD, has joined his colleagues across the country in taking exception to a federal panel’s recommendation that healthy men forego PSA blood tests as a check for prostate cancer.
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) said recently that PSA screening produces too many false-positives,” which can lead to overdiagnosis and overtreatment of prostate cancer.
In response