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To the Editor: Guidelines recently published by the American Cancer Society¹ recommend that men over the age of 50 have an annual digital rectal examination and a prostate-specific-antigen assay. These recommendations are problematic. Other expert panels have not issued such guidelines². Investigators from the American Cancer Society have stated, with regard to prostate cancer, "no randomized, controlled study has ever demonstrated disease-specific mortality reduction from any test or procedure"³.

The American Cancer Society has issued screening guidelines that were subsequently retracted. These guidelines included the use of chest films to screen smokers for lung cancer,⁴ annual sigmoidoscopy for . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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