Irish Medical Times
Pilot screening programme for prostate cancer need immediately

By Greg Baxter
A pilot screening scheme for prostate cancer is needed immediately.

Professor John Armstrong, chairman of the Irish Cancer Society, told Irish Medical Times that waiting for results from randomised trials in Europe and America about the efficacy of PSA testing would “waste lives” if the results came back positive. “Let us be sure, it is very likely the results will be positive because there is nothing intrinsically different about the biology of prostate cancer and breast cancer,” he said.

Full story at Irish Medical Times issue dated 28 April 2006