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The point of screening is to catch it early, because early diagnosis & treatment improves survival rates. The problem is that the test cannot tell who will go on to develop a serious problem, and if you wait and see which cancers become serious enough to require treatment you lose the benefit of early diagnosis and treatment. You may as well just wait for people to develop serious problems.
With prostate cancer an acceptable course of action is 'wait & see' as expounded by a specialist.
Prostate cancer symptoms, causes and treatments | Bupa UK
shoving a finger up 49 people's back passage once a quarter is a lot cheaper & easier than doing it to 10,000. With cameras into the prostate you can monitor the size of the mass, a Biopsy can detect type.
