NYT: Debating the Value of PSA Prostate Screening

[Pluvious]

For some of us, this is an important topic.
I found it worth reading.

The not-inconsequential problems of overdiagnosis and overtreatment for a cancer that is unlikely to threaten a man’s health or life has prompted attempts to develop appropriate guidelines for PSA screening, to determine which men without prostate-related symptoms should have a PSA test and how often, how the test results should be interpreted, and when follow-up biopsy and other testing is warranted.

As Dr. Henry Rosevear, a urologist in private practice in Colorado Springs who endorses the value of the PSA, wrote in Urology Times, “Not everyone needs to be screened, not everyone found to have an elevated PSA needs to be biopsied, and Lord knows that not everyone with prostate cancer needs aggressive treatment.”

Sorry, couldn't find a good picture to go with the link...

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/24/well/live/prostate-testing-PSA-cancer-screening.html

[dhill926]

1. K & R...

thanks for this...

[CaptYossarian]

2. Urology Times.

Great bathroom reading.

[phylny]

3. My husband had absolutely no symptoms 10 years ago

and his PSA saved his life. His doctor said he'd have been dead in two years if they hadn't found his aggressive prostate cancer.

So, Lord knows get your PSA checked.

[eppur_se_muova]

4. No pictures for Prosty the Spokesgland ? How disappointing. nt