1 in 5 young men has had recent prostate cancer test

Courtesy EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health  Sun, 08/10/2008 - 23:00

(Wiley-Blackwell) A new analysis finds that one in five men in their 40s has had a prostate specific antigen test within the previous year and that young black men are more likely than young white men to have undergone the test.


 

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