Overview
- The National Screening Committee advised this week that population-wide PSA screening is likely to cause more harm than good, keeping routine testing off the table for now.
- Colin McFarlane appealed to Black men aged 45 to 74 to contact Prostate Cancer UK and enroll in its Transform programme to contribute data.
- Prostate Cancer UK’s Chiara De Biase said the charity is disappointed by the advice and argued it was the only organisation to submit scientific evidence after three years of work.
- Coverage highlighted that Black men face roughly double the risk of prostate cancer, with reports citing a lifetime diagnosis rate of about one in four, alongside concerns about longstanding mistrust of health institutions.
- McFarlane urged GPs not to refuse PSA tests for asymptomatic patients and cited an anecdote of a man being turned down three times for a test.