Increased screening may have led to unnecessary prostate cancer treatment.

“The number of men diagnosed with prostate cancer began rising in 1987, the year after the publication of a widely publicized study on the use of the" prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test," Dartmouth Medical School researchers found. "For the next five years, the rate increased an average of 12 percent annually, peaking in 1992." However, the "majority of 1.3 million men whose prostate cancer was found because of increased screening between 1986 and 2005 didn't benefit from the treatment they received." Comment; Beware of recommendations made by specialists rather than epidemiologists.