Cancer group releases Top 5 list of tests and treatments that doctors should avoid in some cases

Performing a prostate-specific antigen, or PSA test for prostate cancer screening in men with no symptoms of the disease when they are expected to live less than 10 years is on the new “Top Five” list of things not to do, released by the American Society of Clinical Oncology. Lowell Schnipper, the Theodore W. and Evelyn G. Berenson Professor of Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, is the lead author of the article.

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