Aussie debate over testing 40-year-olds for prostate cancer gets nasty

THE AUSTRALIAN: “When was the last time the epidemiologists treated a 48-year-old man dying of prostate cancer, surrounded by a young family?” asks David Malouf, president of the Urological Society of Australia and New Zealand: “We are not talking about statistics, we are talking about human beings.” READ MORE>

In a testy debate in Australia, he was replying to critics of the society’s recent decision to follow the American Urological Association recommendation that men over 40 be offered PSA tests.