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GPs will offer prostate cancer checks every two years to men aged between 50 and 69 under a major overhaul of national guidelines designed to detect Australia’s most common cancer earlier.

High-risk groups, including men with the BRCA2 gene variant and with a family history of the disease, will be offered screening from the age of 45.

In a significant shift, new clinical guidelines from the Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia recommend for the first time that men with low-grade prostate cancer manage their…

Read the full article at SMH.COM.AU