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

Olympic cycling great Sir Chris Hoy said he was “disappointed and saddened” by the recommendation not to make prostate cancer screening routinely available for the vast majority of men in the UK.

The six-time Games gold medallist revealed last year his prostate cancer had spread to his bones and doctors gave him between two and four years to live.

Hoy was reacting to the UK National Screening Committee saying it would not recommend population screening using the prostate specific antigen (PSA) test because it “is likely to cause more harm than good”.

The 49-year-old said introducing regular checks for men with a higher genetic risk of the disease was “a ve

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