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Experts: Prostate cancer test erratic

ELDORET: If you are leaning towards 50, an African male and thinking of prostate screening, cancer experts at Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital say the available standard test is not very reliable.

Normally such a prospective patient will go through what is called Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA) test but now local cancer experts are saying this test is not appropriate for African men.

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