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All different types of screening in order to catch this before they come. scary stuff listening to you talk about this. >> scary when you ask this. when it comes to hodgkins lymphoma it's a bimodal age. you don't see anything until like around 55, 60. with this non-hodgkins usually as you get older the risk becomes higher. you see this usually over the age of 60, so if you have a family history, if you've been exposed to agent orange, et cetera or benzine, absolutely go to your doctor and have it check. very good question. >> i want to state the obvious which is if it's getting bigger, get it ...

About to find out why. so are you. november is known as movember for many, where guys worldwide raise awareness and funds for men's health issues. they do it by sporting a stash. dr. siegel, do you think i raised any money when i just wore a moustache? fortunately i cleaned up during the commercial. >> there's no question, people saw that out there. >> give and give generously. >> we talk about prostate cancer on this show a lot. you all know i believe in the psa and prostate screening. but we don't talk about testicular cancer enough. there's 8,000 new cases a year and it's half of it is in m...

The government going to be putting in between me and my doctor. >> i think you have the u.s. task force which is -- i don't know what their responsibility -- it's like a branch of this coming in and saying no psa for any healthy man out there. psa is a test we use for diagnosis of prostate cancer. now they are saying it's unnecessary and has created confusion among patients with elevated psa. they said the same thing about the mammogram. >> there was no urologist on that panel that advised against prostate screening for men. they didn't collaborate with other groups. >> the insurance companies...

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 it's a simple blood test, and it's 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. i'm here today with dr. otis sprawly from the american cancer society and also dr. scott miller, who says not screening could cost lives. we'll get to that denit bait, but, first, i want to explain some of the reasoning behind the...