
Following former President Joe Biden's diagnosis with metastatic prostate cancer, news coverage has focused on his lack of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) screening over the past decade.
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Following former President Joe Biden's diagnosis with metastatic prostate cancer, news coverage has focused on his lack of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) screening over the past decade.
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This article appears in the April issue of Evidence-Based Oncology.
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