It has  started; the ink is not even dry from last time with the Purpose of PSA in prostate cancer. The  influential American doctors group has  rewritten the guidelines for the American Urological Association which was issued last Monday at the annual meeting in Chicago.

The new advice is to offer a baseline PSA test at the age of 40 to replace the yearly screening after the age of 50. Follow-up will be based on each man’s situation. Some mixed signs come from doctors. Some think that this makes a lot of sense whereas others believe that over diagnosis is still possible. But prostate cancer is the most common non-skin cancer in American men. When an estimated 186,000 new cases and 28,660 deaths  occurred from it in United States for 2008, the status quo seems awkward.

Many doctors believe the PSA test may still have value and cancer research need to figure out better ways to use it. Furthermore, Men, who have earlier signs with PSA test, can have the proper motivation and the awareness to start fighting the cancer, by changing the lifestyle and diet ,like exercising daily and drinking tea, before drastic therapy becomes the only option.