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Study finds increased diagnostic activity among men with family history of prostate cancer

Family history is considered as a stronger risk for prostate cancer than for many other cancers. Previous epidemiological studies have shown an increased risk of the disease for brothers and sons of men with the disease. Since the introduction and wide-spread usage of the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test in the early 1990s, the sons and brothers of men with prostate cancer have undergone more diagnostic activity.

According to a study published online August 19 in The Journal of the National Cancer Institute, the brothers of men with prostate cancer are at an increased risk of prostate cancer diagnosis because of increased diagnostic activity and not necessarily because they carry a genetic mutation that increases risk of the disease.