The article explores a drop in patients receiving treatment for prostate cancer after a change in screening recommendations.
“It’s not entirely surprising: Primary care doctors who perform the majority of screening were the target audience of U.S. Preventive Services Task Force guidelines recommending against screening. But the specialists who treat prostate cancer once it’s diagnosed had a more tempered response,” says study author Tudor Borza, M.D., M.S., a urologic oncology and health services research fellow at the University of Michigan.
