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Liberty mutual insurance -- responsibility. whats your policy? jon: some new information now about how often men should get screened for prostate cancer. after so much debate about the benefits of regular screening there is a new study out that suggests yearly tests would add about three healthy weeks to the average mans life. our guest is dr. david benson, professor your lodgic surgery and director for center for surgical quality and outcomes research as vanderbilt medical center. i know youre ...

Complications like impotence or incontinence. each man will have to make his own decision because each cancer is different and each man is different. jon: in your view getting this psa test is a worthwhile an yall trek -- annual trek for men. >> this is my opinion based on the evidence. i tell my patients, let me explain the pros and the cons and you make the decision. every man should ask his doctor about the test and explain the pros and cons and make the personal decision, a, whether or not h...

Automatically mean that people will actually use some of the preventive offerings? >> well, thats the point. the scientists that came up with this list feel that these are the kind of services that women should take advantage of because they will be healthier and have healthy families and be able to keep their families healthier if they take the services up. so any payment up front is a deterrent to taking up these services. there are many studies -- jenna: well, and if i could, let me get sally...

Your special circumstances, your age, your sex, your family history, and a decision is made in the privacy of the doctors office and were seeing that this is already changing. several months ago, we had this big announcement from the government that people did not need their psa tests anymore. well, as a urologist, the psa test is extremely important to us, because we use it as one of the many things to help us decide how to care for prostate cancer patients. instead of letting us decide on an i...

Should you cancel your yearly checkup? new research suggests annual doctors appointments arent just a waste of time and money, they could be doing damage to your health. dr. david sumadi of the fox medical a team is here. doctor, any truth to this report? >> well, good morning. and, you know, look, this is a big controversy and debate and a lot of people will say that if you go to your physicals, a lot of times we may get tests that may be unnecessary and they may find some false positive. the p...

controversial new position. the task force which says men should not be screened routinely for the psa test. as you probably know by now, it its a simple blood test, and its the only screen test for prostate cancer, which is the second leading cause of cancer deaths in men. the american cancer society supports these new guidelines and other groups do not. im here today with dr. otis sprawly from the american cancer society and also dr. scott miller, who says not screening could cost li...

Urology gists really really angry. got hundreds of emails from men in 40s and 50s really upset how can u.s. task force come up with regulations. not putting i had guidelines. not get mammogram over the age of 50. now they are saying this is not a good test. as a result its going to lead to a lot of confusion and a lot of issues. this is what we know about this psa test. we know its not the most sensitive test for prostate cancer but thats all we have got. so to say not to get screened i think it...

On your screen right now this is why getting a screening so necessary. every year some 30,000 u.s. men die from prostate cancer. psa screenings can detect prostate cancer in its earliest stages for psa test to save one mans life from prostate cancer 1,000 must be screened. thats what the government panel said this week. it costs money you have to screen 1,000 men to find one man that has prostate cancer that was their reasoning behind. this you think that is bologna. >> listen, clayton, whats th...

what happened after that? >> sefrbl yecertainly years ago slight rise in psa from screening, and then i had more testing and had a slight rise in my psa, and the yourologist wand to do another biopacy, and i got extremely sick, even though i had antibiotics, i got a severe bacterial invection. my blood pressure went low, and i was hospitalized for four days in houston. >> youre okay now? thats all resolved? >> im fine. i had a heart rhythm problem afterwards as well, but now everything...

Welcome back, everybody. we turn now to a bombshell of a medical headline this morning. a panel of experts told doctors to stop using the blood test thats commonly used to treat men for or test men for prostate cancer. >> the psa test provides a warning about the possible presence of cancer but abcs dr. besser tells us why the risk may not be worth taking. >> its one of the most common tests for men. a simple blood test to see if they have prostate cancer. why would anyone be against that? consi...