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Tonight another change in cancer screening guidelines. i want to warn you this is confusing. this is for prostate cancer that killed 27 million americans each year and the second leading cause of cancer for men. the change in the revised guidelines issued today by the american cancer society is a greater emphasis on individual counselling by doctors. so the new guidelines recommend that most men 50 and older should seriously consider the potential risk of treatment before deciding whether to be screened for prostate cancer at all. they should talk it over with their doctors. for men with a gre...

Prostate cancer, the guidelines advise having these discussions at younger ages. what's confusing, of course, is that for years, all of us have been led to believe that prostate cancer screening can save your life. let's talk to "360" md, sanjay gupta. how is this different from the mammography guidelines that stirred up so much controversy last year and caused so much confusion? >> well, you know, with regard to mammography and psa, prostate specific antigen testing, they -- neither one of them are perfect testing by any means. both are sensitive in picking up some sort of abnormality in brea...

Been led to believe that prostate cancer screening can save your life. let's talk to "360's" m.d. sanjay gupta. how is this different from the mammography guidelines that stirred up so much controversy last year and caused so much confusion? >> with regard to mammography and psa, prostate specific antigen testing, they are sensitive in picking up some sort of abnormality in breast or prostate but not good at specificity, meaning being able to tell what the abnormality is. that's the starting point. the difference is there is a fair amount of evidence, nine big trials around the world with rega...