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Scientist Who Discovered PSA: It doesn’t work as a test for prostate cancer

Post on March 11, 2010 by 1 Comment »

We’ve written before here about the reasons why the PSA test for prostate cancer isn’t worth doing as a general screening measure for everyone. Now the discoverer of the antigen behind the PSA test says the same in a strongly-worded op-ed in the NYT yesterday.

Costs will continue to rise at an alarming rate in our health system if we can’t even stop using tests and treatments where we have years – yes, years – of strong evidence that they don’t work as intended.

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  1. pino
    March 11, 2010 at 11:17 am

    Costs will continue to rise at an alarming rate in our health system if we can’t even stop using tests and treatments where we have years – yes, years – of strong evidence that they don’t work as intended.

    Well said! The key to make health care more affordable is NOT to keep the crappy care we have now, tax people and give it away to those who don’t want it or can’t afford it. To make health care affordable is vigorously attack the costs.

    Again, well said.