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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Health
Casey Cooper-Fiske

Tony Robinson ‘thought those most at risk’ would have got cancer screening

Actor and TV presenter Sir Tony Robinson has said he “thought those most at risk” would have been recommended screening for prostate cancer.

The 79-year-old was speaking to the Press Association after the UK National Screening Committee said in a draft recommendation that men with a known genetic risk should be screened for prostate cancer every two years, but testing all men was not advised because of the “harms” of overdiagnosis.

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