South Clinical Campus
23 Hackett Blvd.
Albany, NY 12208

(518) 262-3341

Elise De, MD
Carl Diaz-Parker, RPA-C
Hugh Fisher, MD, FACS
Karla Giramonti, FNP
Ronald Kaufman, MD, FACS
Barry Kogan, MD
Badar Mian, MD
Donald Rivard, MD
Mark White, MD

Prostate Cancer Screening (cont'd)

Who Should be Screened?

Screening has significantly increased the number of cancers diagnosed at an early, and usually curable, stage. Men who are elderly and/or in poor health, need not undergo screening for prostate cancer because there may be little or no benefit to finding the prostate cancer at an early stage in these men. However, men over the age of 50 (or age 40 for African-American men or those with a family history) should be offered or recommended to undergo yearly screening with PSA and DRE. Since the advent of screening with PSA test in 1987, there has been a 4-fold decrease in men with advanced prostate cancer which had already spread at the time of diagnosis.

Risk factors for prostate cancer include family history, high fat diet, smoking and ethnicity. African-American men have a 60% higher incidence rate of prostate cancer than Caucasian men. They are more likely to get this disease at a younger age and often have more aggressive cancer.

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