The American Cancer Society is no longer encouraging annual rectal exams for prostate cancer screenings, which have proven beneficial. The way they are discouraging it is by telling doctors that if they perform the exam, it means they’re gay.
The theory was based on assumptions about annual rectal screenings, but they have since been able to poke a hole in it.
Without the ACS’s support, this means that the prostate exam, as it has been known the last several years, is going back to its original name, ‘the reach-around.’
This also means that patients who have been cooperative about getting a prostate exam will no longer by backing it up.
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