American Urological Association - new guidelines on prostate screening

April 28, 2009 (Chicago, Illinois) — The American Urological Association (AUA) issued new guidelines here during its 104th annual meeting. The new guidelines have lowered the age for beginning prostate-specific antigen (PSA) screening to 40 years for relatively healthy well-informed men who want to be tested.

The new guidelines were announced by Peter R. Carroll, MD, professor of medicine and chair of the Department of Urology at the University of California, San Francisco, and chair of the AUA guidelines committee on PSA screening.

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