'Gutted': No funding for prostate cancer screening
Otago Daily Times Online News [Unofficial]
May 31, 2026
The proposed screening programme would have had a dedicated national unit to call men in for blood tests and then monitor them, the Prostate Cancer Foundation said. Photo: Getty Images
Pretoria Gordon of RNZ
The Prostate Cancer Foundation says the decision not to fund a screening pilot programme will cause more men to die.
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