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Thu 02 Feb 2011Up to 40% sent to prostate cancer clinic had disease
NEARLY 40 per cent of men referred by GPs to rapid access clinics set up in the past year by the national cancer control programme to ensure swift diagnosis of prostate cancer were found to have the disease.
Some 1,594 men were referred to the clinics during 2010 and more than 600 of them were diagnosed with prostate cancer.
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