It’s raining men’s health tests: Prostate awareness and more PSA testing are just inequitable

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It’s raining men’s health tests: Prostate awareness and more PSA testing are just inequitable

Jim Vause 2015

Jim Vause

Two older men CR Centre for Ageing Better on Unsplash
PSA testing draws in worried men and overloads general practice, without improving equity [Image: Centre for Ageing Better on Unsplash]

Ageing men are urged to get their health checked. As a near-octogenerian, Jim Vause first wants to know the evidence

Slow down as you approach 70, it is often advised, and not just in traffic enforcement. Seventy – known as “three score years and 10” – was once se