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The underwear is fashionable among men over 50 years. Imagine fourteen physicians, wisely aligned, pants down to ankles, legs in the air and lifted the index, like schoolboys from another era that would have made a mistake ... Frankly, the picture is worth a visit! They are not afraid of ridicule because, they say, is for a good cause. They ask to play down to the gentlemen DRE: "Prostate Cancer: Do not go to a finger of the diagnosis!" Urologists, addictologists, proctologists, etc.., They responded the call of Michel Cymes, the facilitator of schoolboy humor "Health Magazine" on France 5, which launches this campaign on his website Hi-docteur.com before relaying it on 250 billboards provided by Display Decaux.

These participants fell to the trousers "an example", because there "need a clear message for everyone," summarizes the urologist Francois Haab. Clear? Not so sure. At the bottom of the poster, a short sentence reads: "All the cancer of the prostate should not be treated, but all must be detected by digital rectal examination and a blood test." Here, the case is complicated.

For if there is a screening that is being debated, it is that of prostate cancer. Neither the National Cancer Institute or the National Authority for Health does not recommend routine screening for those over 50 years. For now, scientific studies do not lead to any consensus on a collective benefit of screening (DRE and PSA) in terms of mortality reduction. Michel Cymes assumes the risk of confusion. "I knew it would be controversial, so much the better if the debate is opened. Indeed, if urologists continue to do what they want is to say to skip any prostate cancer cell, then yes there will overdiagnosis and unnecessary treatment. We must explain that there are cancers that do not operate only watch. " prostate cancer has indeed this characteristic to be frequent but often asymptomatic.

It is unclear whether This new campaign allows men to see things more clearly. It is also not welcomed by everyone. Atoute.org On his website, Dr. Dominique Dupargne castigates the call screening "wild", discusses "the finger is to science" and diverts a poster of the French Association of Urology in registering under a pot full of milk : "Prostate: times are hard, help the urologists to boil pot." The controversy is violent. If I were a man I would cry, as do the children: "Thumb!"

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