A recent study has found that Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) hospitals screen elderly men with limited life expectancies for prostate cancer at surprisingly high rates, even though guidelines recommend against such screening. The study of 622,262 men at 104 VA medical centers was published online in the December 17, 2011 edition of the Journal of General Internal Medicine. An abstract of the study is available on the Journal of General Internal Medicine website.
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