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What screening test has most potential for overdx? {{Correct Ans- PSA-Overdiagnosis is the diagnosis of a disease that will not produce symptoms during a patient'slifetime. It tends to occur with cancers that have very slow rates of growth. Prostate cancer is most often a slow-growing cancer and is often present without symptoms in older men. The introduction of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) screening was accompanied by a marked rise in the rate of diagnosis of prostate cancer while mortality decreased much less significantly, and this decrease was probably largely attributable to improved treatment.
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