Cancer screening in Canada outdated: doctors [Video]

A group of doctors say Canadian cancer screening guidelines set by a national task force are out-of-date and putting people at risk because their cancers aren’t detected early enough.

“I’m faced with treating too many patients dying of prostate cancer on a daily basis due to delayed diagnosis,” Dr. Fred Saad, a urological oncologist and director of prostate cancer research at the Montreal Cancer Institute, said at a news conference in Ottawa on Monday.

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The Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care, established by the Public Health Agency of Canada, sets clinical guidelines to help family doctors and nurse practitioners decide whether and when to recommend screening and other prevention and early detection health-care measures to their patients.

Its members include primary-care physicians and nurse practitioners, as well as specialists, a spokesperson for the task …