Prostate Cancer Deaths Increase With PSA Tests

Men, do you want to lessen your risk of dying from prostate cancer? If so, then take heed of a new study showing that the risk of death from prostate cancer increases in men who have the PSA screening test.

To improve your odds against dying of prostate cancer, simply refuse the PSA test that your doctor has probably been pressing on you!

In truth, the difference is small. However, what this study doesn’t factor in should be considered. How much harm is done by unneeded procedures resulting from both false positives and slow growing tumors that didn’t need treatment?

Yet again, we’re seeing the truth of so-called evidence based medicine. It’s largely a farce—little more than a term invented to sell dangerous treatments by giving the impression that modern medicine has a solid basis in science. In reality, far too much of it is based on either wishful thinking or slanted research purchased by Big Pharma or its minions.

The Study

The study, titled “Prostate, Lung, Colorectal, and Ovarian Cancer Screening Trial: Mortality Results after 13 Years of Follow-up” and published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, followed 76,685 cancer-free men aged 55 – 74 at the time of enrollment. They were divided into two groups:

• 38,340 who were given annual PSA (prostate-specific antigen) screen annually for 6 years and DRE (digital rectal exam) screening for 4 years, and
• 38,345 who received the usual care, which could included “opportunistic screening”.

92% of the men were followed for 10 years and 57% were followed for 13 years.

10 Year Results

The earlier 10-year report showed that 116 per 10,000 men in the screened group were diagnosed with cancer, while only 95 per 10,000 were in the control group. Deaths from prostate cancer in the screened group were 2 per 10,000, and in the control group they were 1.7 per 10,000.

13 Year Results

At 13 years, 3.7 per 10,000 in the screened group had died of prostate cancer, while 3.4 per 10,000 in the control group had died of prostate cancer.

Just as with the fear mongering to get women to allow themselves to be subjected to mammograms, the push to get men to have PSA tests have been based on pseudo science, at best.

Notice, too, that the harmful effects of unnecessary treatment resulting from false positives was not reported. How many men suffered as a result of that? At a minimum in today’s world of drug-resistant infections, even biopsies carry significant risks. What about unneeded surgeries? Surgeries resulting in impotence? Chemotherapy with its horrific adverse effects?

The truth must be that, not only were men not saved from prostate cancer, many must have been severely harmed by treatments resulting from both false and genuinely positive PSA results.

Routine screening for prostate cancer, which has been pushed on men for 2½ decades, does more harm than good. Evidence-based medicine is yet again shown to be a farce and a fraud.

Sources: 

• Prostate, Lung, Colorectal, and Ovarian Cancer Screening Trial: Mortality Results after 13 Years of Follow-up
• No Mortality Benefit Seen from PSA Screening
• PSA test for prostate cancer doesn’t save lives, study finds
• PSA Test for Prostate Cancer Doesn’t Save Lives: Study
• Study: Routine prostate cancer testing doesn’t save lives

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