Obama-Care’s “death panels” recommend no screening for prostate cancer for men. The US Preventive Service Task Force ruled last week that screening for prostate cancer is a waste of money.
The task force claims that screening all adult men with the PSA (protein-specific antigen) test doesn’t prevent death from the disease. It argues that “the number of men who avoid dying of prostate cancer because of screening after 10 to 14 years is, at best, very small.â€
Adding to the “costs†of the test are “false positives†— they tell people they have cancer when they donâ€
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First, the task force measures the effect of testing on the death rate from any disease (all-cause mortality). Thatâ€
The task force claims there is no evidence that screening directly reduces prostate cancer. But how, then, did death rates decline, if screening doesnâ€
It does, of course. As prostate-cancer expert William Catalano notes, PSA screening is why the horror of not diagnosing this cancer until it has metastasized (advanced and spread) has all but disappeared.
Catalano also points out that itâ€
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