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I’m in early 50s and have been thinking about the prostate test, but what puts me off is that there is presumably some rationale behind the absence of a national screening program, in that the risks of over-diagnosis and over-treatment may outweigh (at a population level) the benefits of earlier detection of those cancers which would actually proceed to be harmful. My dad got diagnosed a couple of years ago at 78 when by chance had a PSA test which was significantly elevated, followed by digital exam, followed by biopsy, which confirmed malignant tumour, and after hormone treatment and a month of radiotherapy he recently got the all clear.