Prostate Cancer Screening - A hoax?

 MEN subjected to 'substantial harms!' –

One of its Key Architects warn!

In a recent statement published in the journal, Annals of Internal Medicine, the American College of Physicians (ACP), has  petitioned doctors to be circumspect about recommending prostate cancer screenings – Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA) test to their patients; warning that these tests come with limited benefits and a slew of "substantial harms,” writes Ethan Huff of NaturalNews.

This warning is apparently in response to the continued release of independent studies that warn about the uselessness of prostate cancer screenings. 

As explained by ACP on its website, the group is strongly opposed to any men younger than 50 or older than 69 receiving prostate cancer screenings, period!   

They went on to say that, for men between the ages of 50 and 69, they strongly encourage a thorough discussion with their doctors before agreeing to a prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test; because misdiagnosis and resultant unnecessary treatments can cause more harm than good in the form of incontinence, impotence, and various other devastating side effects.


David L. Bronson, M.D, F.A.C.P., and president of ACP, also advised that "Before PSA testing, doctors and patients should discuss the potential benefits and harms of screening and the patient's individual risk of prostate cancer, general health, and preferences for testing and evaluation,".   

He also went on to say that men between the ages of 50 and 69, who express a clear preference for screening, could have the PSA test.  But adding that for most of these men though, the harms will outweigh the benefits.

Government agency determined back in 2012 that PSA tests are useless for men of all ages!!

Such a statement, he says, represents an about-face for ACP, which just so happens to be one of the original architects of the PSA test for prostate cancer.  

But it is a welcomed change, especially in light of the fact that the United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) last year determined that PSA screenings are useless for all men, regardless of age.  

According to USPSTF researchers, the harms of PSA testing far outweigh any alleged benefits.


Major harms caused by PSA screening include:

1.  False positives that result in unneeded treatment, including prostate biopsies that can lead to significant bleeding, infection, or worse.

2.    False positives can also lead to treatments with surgery or radiation, which can result in loss of sexual function, loss of control of urination (incontinence), and even death.

3.   There is also the risk of falsely targeting benign tumours that are actually harmless, a major flaw of the PSA test.

"Many people have a blind faith in early detection of Cancer and subsequent aggressive medical intervention whenever cancer is found," wrote Dr. Otis W. Brawley, M.D., M.P.H., Chief Medical Officer of the American Cancer Society, in an accompanying commentary published alongside the USPSTF's updated recommendations.  "There is little appreciation of the harms that screening and medical interventions can cause."

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Sources for this article include:

http://www.acponline.org/pressroom/prostate_cancer_screening.htm
http://www.acponline.org/pressroom/psa_release.htm
http://www.reuters.com
http://www.naturalnews.com/031950_prostate_cancer_screening.html
 http://www.naturalnews.com/039920_prostate_cancer_screening_tests_PSA.html#ixzz2XXD991bm. Accessed 10th. March 2014