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Health See other Health Articles Title: Prostate screening protects the doctor more than the patient In the February edition of Scientific American, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center prostate expert Marc B. Garnick, MD, states the current system that relies on prostate-specific antigens levels in the blood is “deeply flawed,” and physicians must take into account the fact “the PSA test does not tell you if a man has cancer, just that he might have it.” “Most people outside the medical community do not realize how flimsy evidence has been in favor of the PSA screening data,” says Garnick, who is also an editor-in-chief of Harvard Medical School’s Annual Report on Prostate Diseases and associated website. In a perfect world, a non-invasive screening test would identify only cancers that could prove lethal. But most urologists immediately recommend invasive biopsy. They do not do so for good medical reasons, they do so to protect their insurance premiums. It is biopsy that makes the world imperfect because it treats all men as the same and all cancers as the same. As a result, the vast majority of men who end up receiving invasive treatments for prostate cancer are doing so unnecessarily. The thing is that with biopsy it is not possible to establish whether a prostate cancer is life-threatening or not. The fact is that 80% of prostate cancers are not life-threatening. But Doctors are unable to tell if you belong to the 80%, so they assume all men with Prostate cancer are at risk. If you have a raised PSA, instead of worrying unnecessarily, do not have a biopsy because that is only likely to spread the prostate Cancer and takes you down a very slippery road. Instead you can use my non-invasive prostate protection program to establish what kind of prostate cancer you have and then monitor it year by year to ensure that the nature of your prostate Cancer has not changed. And in order to help to reduce the chances of further problems with your prostate, follow my recommended supplements, diet and lifestyle. In two studies from 2009, one conducted in Europe and the other in the US, healthy men in their 50s and 60s were randomly divided into two groups; one was periodically screened for prostate cancer using PSA testing or a digital rectal exam, or both. The other group was not offered routine testing, but received standard medical care as needed. Neither study showed that the men who were tested and treated lived any longer than those who were not offered routine testing. The European study showed that only one man out of 48 who were treated actually needed the treatment, and that the other 47 and had not really needed the treatment suffered the consequences of side-effects unnecessarily. Results from a long-term Canadian study indicate that the death rate from the disease for men who elect active surveillance, or choosing to delay treatment after a PSA test led to the diagnosis of cancer is 1 percent over 10 years, compared with a 0.5 percent risk of dying from complications in the first month after prostate cancer surgery. The point is that the initial decision to forgo treatment is not necessarily the final one. Surgery, radiation and other therapies are still available later on, and most current data indicate that the outcome will not be negatively affected by the delay. Such an approach allows you at worst to delay the reduced quality of life resulting from treatment or at best to avoid those side effects for ever. If you would like more information about my prostate protection program just e-mail me. Another alternative is for you to take my supplement, total health for the prostate. That will almost certainly reduce your PSA within 3 to 6 months provided you also make the changes to your diet and lifestyle that I recommend in my 100 page guide "all about the prostate". https://www.bensprostate.com/total-health/ Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest Begin Trace Mode for Comment # 1.
#1. To: Tatarewicz (#0)
I've never had a DRE and never will. My father had prostate cancer, which was killed with radiation. He's fine now. Most men die with prostate cancer, not from it.
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