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Britain's prostate cancer screening plan is a start. But too many men remain outside it.
In March, the UK National Screening Committee recommended a targeted national prostate cancer screening programme for the first time, a genuine milestone after years of debate. But look more closely and it becomes considerably smaller. The programme offers PSA testing every two years to men aged 45 to 61 with a pathogenic BRCA2 gene variant and a family history of breast, ovarian, pancreatic or prostate cancer. Most other men remain outside a nationally organised screening pathway.
