America is now, belatedly, moving away from random screening, which led to absurdly rigorous treatment of obviously harmless categories like small children, veterans and even the planes' own pilots, to a computerised system that checks identities and assesses potential risk.

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Prostate-cancer diagnoses in the so-called PSA era may have been less traumatic, the researchers suggest, because cancers identified by PSA are more likely to be slow-growing or harmless enough that they don't require immediate treatment.

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