Prostate cancer – sometimes it’s better not to know

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If you’ve seen a few men wandering around lately, proudly sporting a new moustache, some of them are likely to be taking part in MO-vember.

If you’ve seen a few men wandering around lately, proudly sporting a new moustache, some of them are likely to be taking part in MO-vember.  The Mo-vember campaign asks men to grow a mo to raise money for men’s health and prostate cancer initiatives, and in part encourages men of various ages to get checked for prostate cancer.  This all seems like a good thing, but population screening for prostate cancer has caused heated debates in the medical community. Many experts say that testing the population actually does more harm than good.

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