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The streets in northeastern syria. it's time now for a sunday house call. with us as always is sunday house call host dr. isadore rosenfeld, the professor of clinical medicine and every sunday he gives us great medical advice. good to see you, as always. >> jamie: good morning, doctor. >> thank you, good morning. >> eric: there's some really interesting medical information this week about men and psa's and prostate cancer. a government panel now advises that healthy men, get this, should no longer get blood tests screening for prostate cancer. they say the blood tests may actually do more harm...

expected. we'll tell you why, what we can learn. first, the federal agency that told millions of women to delay getting mammograms is starting another tough argument. the u.s. preventive services task force now says most men should not bother with screening for prostate cancer. they say the psa test does more harm potentially than good. that it barely reduces death and leads to unnecessary treatment and complications. there's already pushback. the head of the prostate cancer foundation, a patient group, call the recommendation "a terrible mistake." we reached out to the american ne...

task force says most men should not bother with screening for prostate cancer. they say the psa test does more harm potentially than good, that it barely reduces deaths and leads to a lot of unnecessary treatment and complications. now will is already some pushback. for example, the head of the prostate cancer foundation, a patient group, calls the new recommendation "a terrible mistake." the american neurological association says they are still working on their response. to help me sort it out for you, i'm with dr. christopher lega i legathitis. what will you tell your patients now ...

Recommending against the psa test for prostate cancer, saying that blood test does not work and can actually do a lot more harm than good. that said, the american cancer society reports one of every six men will get prostate cancer in his live time and that it will kill close to 35,000 men this year alone. so the question now is, if the psa screening, the blood screening won't work, what will? trace gallagher with this. a high psa level doesn't mean you have prostate levels, never has. >> could be urinary tract infection. large prostate. a number of things. the panel saying maybe you are bette...

Take the test and figure out what to do? explain it. >>trace: well, they are saying, you can still get the bros state test, the psa test, if you want and you request it. but the recommendation is the doctors did not bring it up in the first place but if you are a man and you are showing symptoms of prostate cancer you would get the test. look at the numbers. 240,000 people each year are diagnosed with press state cancer and 33,000 will die from it. look at pancreatic cancer, the difference, steve jobs died from that this week, 44,000 in cases and 37,000 will die. so, doctors say, clearly some ...