The UK National Screening Committee said there were more harms than benefits to using the PSA test for screening all men.

Prostate cancer screening should not be made routinely available for the vast majority of men in the UK, a committee advising the Government has said.

In a draft recommendation, the UK National Screening Committee (UKNSC) said it would not recommend population screening using the prostate specific antigen (PSA) test because it “is likely to cause more harm than good”.

Experts are waiting to see data from a large trial launched by Prostate Cancer UK last week into whether combining PSA with other tests, such as rapid MRI scans, could lead to a recommendation for population-wide screening.

For now, the committee will put forward only a recommendation to screen men wi

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