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Something my father and I have been talking about often of late is the PSA test for men. Dad saw his doctor about the PSA today. It was kind of cute, dad was fully prepared with notes, and charts he put together. It was like the old days, going to make a sales presentation. It was an event.
Not on the humorous side as much, but some feel prostates are being removed without need. The surgery often leaves men unable to control their bladder. It has reportedly created a large market for mens adult diapers. Professor Richard Ablin, the discover of the PSA, is one of the more out spoken experts on the topic. His book on the matter can be seen at:
The Great Prostate Hoax: How Big Medicine Hijacked the PSA Test and Caused a Public Health Disaster
http://www.amazon.com/Great-Prostate-Ho ... 585&sr=8-1
Something my father and I have been talking about often of late is the PSA test for men. Dad saw his doctor about the PSA today. It was kind of cute, dad was fully prepared with notes, and charts he put together. It was like the old days, going to make a sales presentation. It was an event.
Not on the humorous side as much, but some feel prostates are being removed without need. The surgery often leaves men unable to control their bladder. It has reportedly created a large market for mens adult diapers. Professor Richard Ablin, the discover of the PSA, is one of the more out spoken experts on the topic. His book on the matter can be seen at:
The Great Prostate Hoax: How Big Medicine Hijacked the PSA Test and Caused a Public Health Disaster
http://www.amazon.com/Great-Prostate-Ho ... 585&sr=8-1
Every year, more than a million men undergo painful needle biopsies for prostate cancer, and upward of 100,000 have radical prostatectomies, resulting in incontinence and impotence. But the shocking fact is that most of these men would never have died from this common form of cancer, which frequently grows so slowly that it never even leaves the prostate. How did we get to a point where so many unnecessary tests and surgeries are being done? In The Great Prostate Hoax, Richard J. Ablin exposes how a discovery he made in 1970, the prostate-specific antigen (PSA), was co-opted by the pharmaceutical industry into a multibillion-dollar business. He shows how his discovery of PSA was never meant to be used for screening prostate cancer, and yet nonetheless the test was patented and eventurally approved by the FDA in 1994. Now, doctors and victims are beginning to speak out about the harm of the test, and beginning to search for a true prostate cancer-specific marker.