When caught early, cancer of the prostate has a cure rate of over 90 percent...

With numbers like that, it is easy to understand why Dr. Kevin Collins, chief of staff at Trinity Health in Minot, is not happy with a recommendation put out by the US Preventative Services Task Force.

That group claims men over 75 should not get PSA blood tests which can indicate prostate cancer because they are nearing the end of life anyway.

Dr. Collins says he, his colleagues, and even the American Cancer Society strongly disagree...

(Dr. Kevin Collins - Trinity Health) "That flies completely in the face of how we practice medicine in America today all across the country. It is the national standard of care to look at physiological age, not chronological age when making screening related decisions."

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