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Liberty mutual insurance -- responsibility. what's 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 man's 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 you're just out of surgery, doctor, thanks so much for being with us today. there is so much confusion e...

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 y'all 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 he wants to be screened. and if he is gets screened and found to have cancer and b, whether he wants...

Automatically mean that people will actually use some of the preventive offerings? >> well, that's 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 in on this. sally, is there a comparable list for men so there is preventive services out there be...

Your special circumstances, your age, your sex, your family history, and a decision is made in the privacy of the doctor's office and we're 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 individual basis the government comes in and said this is a bad test, all over the news, this is a ...

Should you cancel your yearly checkup? new research suggests annual doctor's appointments aren't 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 physicals cost a lot of money. so the people that argue against this is it's better not to go but w...