TMC Medical Minutes: PSA test

Updated: Mon 2:24 PM, Jul 28, 2008

Most experts agree that healthy men over the age of 50 should consider being screened for prostate cancer. Urologist Dr. Steve Johnson discusses the test that is used to screen for such cancer.

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