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Consultant urologist Professor Francis Chinegwundoh says the evidence is “very clear” that screening men for prostate cancer reduces deaths. He said that fears of “overdiagnosis and overtreatment” are now outdated, saying “things have moved on a lot in the last 10 years.” Report by Covellm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00The data is very clear that if you screen men for prostate cancer, you will reduce the men dying from it.
00:06Also, the argument about over-diagnosis and over-treatment, I think, has largely gone.
00:12Things have moved on a lot in the last 10 years.
00:15So, for example, in the past, if your PSA, prostate-specific antigen, blood test,
00:22if that was raised, you would automatically go through to have a prostate biopsy,
00:26which wasn't without its downsides.
00:29And if your prostate cancer was diagnosed, you would be treated with some radical treatment, surgery or radiation.
00:35And so some men would have problems or side effects from the biopsy process and from the treatment process.
00:43However, the landscape has completely changed in the last 10 years.
00:49Now, if your PSA is raised, you have an MRI scan.
00:53The MRI scan will exclude many men from having to go on to have a biopsy.
00:58If your MRI scan looks normal, then you don't go on to have a biopsy.
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