Prostate Cancer Screening Often Problematic
BALDWIN: Last hour we broke the news on CNN we can expect new recommendations coming from the group of scientists telling men not to get screened for prostate cancer. Senior medical correspondent Elizabeth Cohen is here with the story and here to explain no screenings.</s>ELIZABETH COHEN, CNN SENIOR MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT: I know that is confusing to people. They don't screen for cancer. This is the same group were telling women in their 40s don't need mammograms. The Prostate Cancer Foundation when they saw the piece that you and I did, we talked to them, and they said this is a tremendous mistake for men to be told not to get prostate cancer screening.</s>COHEN: This group as well as many other respected doctors say look, prostate cancer is usually a very slow growing and not going hurt you. So you might find the slow growing prostate cancer when you go to look for and it you treat it and you can make a man impotent and incontinent when the treatment when the cancer would never hurt him to begin with. A very slow growing cancer, much of the time. But sometimes it is a fast-growing cancer. The problem is you can't tell. And so men who have had fast-growing cancers say how can you say not screen? Screenings saved my life. Other men where they found a slow growing cancer and now today are impotent and continent they say I wish I never knew. Just knowing led me to become impotent and incontinent.</s>BALDWIN: OK, so then ultimately, what's the best advice.</s>COHEN: I wrote a column about this called "what to do to do" because I think it is a huge question. And I think all a man can really do is look at the statistics. When you screen for prostate cancer there is less than one percent chance you are going to find a really threatening cancer. You're 47 times more likely to find a cancer that's never going to harm you but that if you treat it the treatment could harm you. So you just have to decide --</s>BALDWIN: So awareness?</s>COHEN: Yes, awareness and having -- this is probably the single most important time to be an empowered patient. It is a difficult decision to make whether to screen for prostate cancer. You have to sit with your doctor and talk to them about what you want to do.</s>BALDWIN: Where do we read "What to do to do?</s>COHEN: We are going to put it up on CNN.com/empoweredpatient.</s>BALDWIN: Elizabeth Cohen, thank you. Still to come here, a noisy scene at the occupied New York protests today. A large crowd of protesters gathered outside of police headquarters, shouting "We are the 99 percent."</s>CROWD: We are the 99 percent!</s>BALDWIN: From New York to Philadelphia, Houston, Dallas, Nashville, Washington, D.C., these Occupy Wall Street movements really now spreading to more cities across the country today. In fact, these are images now from -- this is Philadelphia and Nashville. Anywhere from a couple of dozen to a couple of hundred people are showing up and multiple cities to protest, a variety of issues, issues such as calling an end to the Fed, asking to boycott standardized testing, do something about a variety of issues protesters consider social and economic inequalities, and to prosecute Wall Street executives over the whole financial crisis. In fact, just this morning, if you were listening to the president, he was asked about this. He addressed these Wall Street protests today. Take a listen.</s>OBAMA: On the issue of prosecutions on Wall Street, one of the biggest problems about the collapse of Lehman's and subsequent financial crisis and the whole subprime lending fiasco is that a lot of that stuff wasn't necessarily illegal. It was just immoral or inappropriate or reckless.</s>BALDWIN: Last night in New York, some of the protests did get a bit rowdy. A handful of protesters cried to crash through a police line to get there on to Wall Street. There were other scuffles between police and protesters. About two dozen people, we are told, were arrested. Coming up, word of an apparent feud at the White House. Find out why the first family is fighting. Who could this be over? Plus, some of the biggest names in sports in the buff from tennis to hoops. Stars are showing off their bodies completely nude. Coming up next you're going to say, the racy pictures and hear why they are getting naked.