Increased diagnostic activity among men with family history of prostate cancer

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.

Researchers say that the increased diagnostic activity among men with a family history of prostate cancer, which we observed, will inflate family history as a risk factor for prostate cancer in populations of men who commonly receive PSA testing