Men learn about prostate cancer online
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 29 (UPI) -- Men who view online presentations about prostate cancer are more likely to understand the disease than those visiting health Web sites, a U.S. study said.
In the study, 611 healthy men ages 50 were assigned to visit public prostate-cancer Web sites or view online presentations designed to help them make decisions.
Those who watched the online presentations scored higher on tests about prostate knowledge than those who visited the public Web sites, the study found.
The study, published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, found that after the study, 9 percent of the men were less likely to want to undergo a prostate-specific antigen, or PSA, test than those who only visited Web sites, who were about 3 percent less likely to undergo the test.
At the beginning of the study, 96 percent of the men expressed interest in a PSA test.
Some doctors support routinely giving the PSA test to healthy men, while others question its value, lead study author Dominick Frosch of the University of California at Los Angeles said.
"We don't have any evidence that would tell us that screening for prostate cancer in men without symptoms would help them live longer," Frosch said in a statement.
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Copyright 2008 by United Press International.
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