Prostate test to be retaken after errors found - The Guardian 22nd March 2008

Tuesday, March 25, 2008

More than 500 men sent away with negative tests for prostate cancer now face an anxious wait after a routine quality audit revealed two errors by the laboratory of a hospital in Carmarthenshire. The 528 men had been referred for prostate biopsies after initial blood tests suggested they could have the disease which is responsible for up to a quarter of cancers in men, but were given the all-clear.

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