Medical News: PSA Debate Hashed Out in Congress - in Urology, Prostate Cancer from MedPage Today

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By Emily P. Walker, Washington Correspondent, MedPage Today

A day after the American Cancer Society (ACS) released updated prostate cancer screening guidelines, the group's chief medical officer was before Congress urging the government to fund research into alternative screening methods for prostate cancer.

Otis Brawley, MD, an oncologist and chief medical officer for the ACS, told the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee that the country needs to move beyond PSA tests and discover new screening modalities that can better detect only cancers that will turn deadly.
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