Prostate cancer

screening: should family physicians discuss it with their patients? Iread the recent editorial1 on prostatecancer with interest. The issue of screening for this disease is important for family physicians and their patients. With some concern, however, I noted the recommendation for increasing awareness among Canadian men about the risks and benefits of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) and digital rectal examination (DRE) screening. This has been a very diffi-cult area for us in primary care; alon