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Older men failing to follow prostate cancer screening recommendations

By Deborah Kotz

 |  Globe Staff  

  April 24, 2012

Despite four-year-old guidelines recommending against the use of PSA screening in men over age 75, doctors are still continuing to screen older men at the same rate as they were before the guidelines were issued, according to a research paper published Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

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