Mass Screening For Prostate Cancer Can Have Unpleasant Consequences

Mass Screening For Prostate Cancer Can Have Unpleasant Consequences.
Health campaigns that highlight the pickle of mournful screening rates for prostate cancer to present such screenings seem to have an unintended effect: They unman men from undergoing a prostate exam, a budding German study suggests sexual. The finding, reported in the simultaneous issue of Psychological Science, stems from job by a research team from the University of Heidelberg that gauged the objective to get screened for prostate cancer among men over the era of 45 who reside in two German cities.

In earlier research, the chew over authors had found that men who had never had such screenings tended to assume that most men hadn't either example. In the current effort, the set exposed men who had never been screened to one of two health news statements: either that only 18 percent of German men had been screened in the previous year, or that 65 percent of men had been screened.