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The death of OJ Simpson from prostate cancer has men's health specialists reminding everyone of the importance of early detection.

This committee that basically gets together. it's several scientists -- more than a dozen scientists who specialize in this area. they look at lots of data and then they make recommendations on all sorts of things. you know, mammograms. psa testing. and then things like baby aspirin. so i get where it's confusing, again. but again, for someone like you, anderson, because you have been taking it for a while, obviously, at the recommendation of your doctor, you shouldn't stop it. no one is saying based on these draft recommendations, that the aspirin should be stopped. >> sanjay gupta, appreciat...

We see it with the fda advisory committee, cdc advisory committees. the u.s. preventative task force, they also have this -- this committee that basically gets together. it's several scientists -- more than a dozen scientists who specialize in this area. they look at lots of data and then they make recommendations on all sorts of things. you know, mammograms. psa testing. and then things like baby aspirin. so i get where it's confusing, again. but again, for someone like you, anderson, because you have been taking it for a while, obviously, at the recommendation of your doctor, you shouldn't s...

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Who say, don't do it. and then there's a group of people who have been literally doing it in vans and super market parking lots. the pendulum can go too far in either direction. there is a legitimate use of psa and we need to drive this back into the doctor's office where a man is informed of the risks and the benefits and probably some benefits and then the man can decide to get the psa and, in some instances, he is going to need to get some of these other tests like the mri that i'm excited about. >> is this a change in position for you? i think the last time we spoke the task force came out...