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Aidan in HCMC

Prostate Cancer: Over-Testing and Over-Treatment


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  1. "Even during approval hearings for the PSA test, the FDA was well aware of the problems and dangers. For one thing, the test has a 78% false positive rate."
  2. "Richard Ablin is a pathologist who invented the PSA test but has become a vociferous critic of its widespread use as a diagnostic tool for prostate cancer."
  3. "Moreover, he (Ablin) maintains that the medical people involved in prostate screening and treatment represent “a self-perpetuating industry that has maimed millions of American men.”"


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