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The cancer screening you can officially skip
Dr. Douglas
Government panel says ‘NO!’ to PSA tests
Hear that sound? That’s the death knell for the PSA test — and it’s about time too. This test has caused too many men to suffer too many emasculating and life-ruining side effects, with little to no benefits whatsoever.
My anti-PSA stance caused me to be dismissed as an alt-med kook years ago, but the truth always finds its way to the light sooner or later. Take a look at what just stepped into the light:
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force is now urging a clean and permanent break from the PSA test.
The government panel is even giving the screening its lowest possible grade of “D,” which means in medicine exactly what it did back in high school: You’re a dummy if you get one.
Heck, if that PSA test was a student, he’d be the dumbest kid in class — because this screening has flunked every single test you can think of.
In the 17 years since the PSA test became “THE” screening for men, we’ve seen some 2 million Americans treated for prostate cancer… but the disease’s death rate hasn’t budged an inch — not out here in the real world, and not in the multiple trials looked at by the Task Force.
Naturally, oncologists and urologists won’t take this one lying down. They’ve already said they’re committed to PSA-ing everyone they can, with the American Urological Association calling the recommendation “a great disservice.”
That just proves they’re not interested in science — only math, particularly the addition of dollars to their bank accounts from all those procedures. You get incontinence, impotence and an infection for a cancer that never needed treatment, while they get new Ferraris and beach homes.
What a deal… for them!
Well, the jig is up: You don’t have to be a radical to say “NO” to the PSA test anymore, and you don’t have to listen to any doc who tells you otherwise.
Listen to Dr. Richard Ablin instead. Last year, he called the PSA test “a hugely expensive public health disaster” and “hardly more effective than a coin toss.”
He should know: He invented the PSA test.
Nov. 4, 2011
http://douglassreport.com/2011/10/31/government-no-psa-tests