Prostate cancer is probably one of the most common illness plaguing the male population of the world. In fact, one of every three men diagnosed with cancer have prostate cancer. Skin cancer is the number cancer among men.
But this does not make most men to think that they should do something about preventing this disease from disrupting their lives. Because a recent study showed that less and less men are taking time to have prostate-specific antigen test or digital rectal exam done on them. These two are routine procedures performed to check to symptoms of prostate cancer.
The study showed that most men, after weighing the pros and cons of having prostate cancer screening test, decided not to have it at all for the mere fact that they believe that these tests does absolutely nothing because of the fact that they are inaccurate. This is even after several American and Swedish researchers have identified genetic markers that appear to raise the risk of prostate cancer.
Most respondents to this study said that prostate cancer screening tests are nebulous and are useless, as far as they can see. One even said that he would only take the test only if they find a way to be really definite with their assumptions about the illness.
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