Mass Screening For Prostate Cancer Can Have Unpleasant Consequences

Mass Screening For Prostate Cancer Can Have Unpleasant Consequences.
Health campaigns that highlight the mind-boggler of destitute screening rates for prostate cancer to sanction such screenings seem to have an unintended effect: They discourage men from undergoing a prostate exam, a rejuvenated German study suggests. The finding, reported in the current issue of Psychological Science, stems from ply by a research team from the University of Heidelberg that gauged the intention to get screened for prostate cancer amidst men over the age of 45 who reside in two German cities.

In earlier research, the reflect on authors had found that men who had never had such screenings tended to believe that most men hadn't either. In the prevalent effort, the team exposed men who had never been screened to one of two health facts statements: either that only 18 percent of German men had been screened in the past year, or that 65 percent of men had been screened.