Breaking News…USPSTF declines PSA testing on Egyptian Mummy with Metastatic Prostate Cancer!

Just kidding....too funny to pass up. Where is the USPSTF when you need them? We can do MRI's on 2000 year old Egyptians but don't recommend  PSAs on men in the U.S.A. Mummy Had History’s Second-Oldest Prostate Cancer Case By Heather Pringle, Science Now Some 2,250 years ago in Egypt, a man known today only as M1 struggled …

prostate cancer , colon cancer and no insurance…having no insurance was not the problem here…surprise?

I have no clue what in the hell the following is about other than whoever the writer is talking about has been diagnosed late with both colon and prostate cancer. How does that happen in the higher socioeconomic folks that have the means to at least to be aware of what you do to detect …

i am going to shout this….IF YOU GET A PSA TO CHECK FOR PROSTATE CANCER BECAUSE OF URINARY SYMPTOMS THEN YOU HAVE WAITED TOO LATE!

As I make very clear in my book...most prostate cancers form away from the tube that the male pees through...the prostatic urethra. If one's prostate cancer is to the point that the urinary stream is small or affected in any way by prostate cancer, then that cancer is extensive and it is too late for …

Hmmmmm…what do the doctors who actually treat prostate cancer patients (urologists) think about the PSA and the USPSTF?

Until there is a better widespread test for this potentially devastating disease, the USPSTF – by disparaging the test – is doing a great disservice to the men worldwide who may benefit from the PSA test. - AUA AUA RESPONDS TO NEW RECOMMENDATIONS ON PROSTATE CANCER SCREENING Association urges men to speak with their physicians …

Top 10 (and more) prostate cancer questions/issues to consider in any treatment decision by Northeast Georgia Prostatediaries blog.

Incremenatlism...the HHS says that the PSA rates a "D" and hence insurance is not required to pay for it...then Medicare won't pay for it....the extrapolation is that the Government by virtue of decrees (USPSTF) guides the healthcare dollar which in turn de facto tells doctors what to do. Far fetched......? The U.S. Preventive Services Task …

Risk of infection with prostate biopsy versus the risk of not diagnosing prostate cancer. Which is worse?

When I was a kid and grocery shopping with my mother the first place I went in the store was to the butcher department. "May I have some bones for my dog please." The butcher dutifully disappeared and returned with about five or six bones all wrapped up and gave them to me. Free of …