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Experts have advised against routine prostate cancer screening for the majority of men in the UK.

The UK National Screening Committee (UKNSC) has rejected calls for population-wide prostate cancer screening using the PSA test, adding that said screening all men could cause "more harm than good".

The committee said men with a known genetic risk should be screened for prostate cancer every two years. The draft recommendation, which is subject to consultation, is for a screening programme for men with a confirmed BRCA1 and BRCA2 genetic variant from age 45 to 61.

The UKNSC said it did not recommend screening for black men for prostate cancer due to a current lack of data and evidence - but the NHS says prostate cancer is "most common in men over the age of 50 or from a bla

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