Re: Re: Prostate cancer: LA Times commentary

[Guest guest]

One person's obvious problem does not justify the thrust of the original article

because of your case would you have thousands of men undergo often unnecessary

treatment, treatment that in some cases will result in death as the direct

result of Metastasis?

Immediately upon finding a high PSA and perhaps that would be all some

Urologists would need, a Biopsy would be suggested thereby creating the

situation whereby 'seeding' of cancer cells might occur and instead of having a

slow growing cancer, this poor soul might become one of the aggressive cases.

Then there's the prospect that a cancer can be missed. It wouldn't be the

first time.

Let us examine the thought that thousands upon thousands of men will not just

have screening, many will be aggressively treated because there is that very

tiny minority out there. Remember, we're not talking about men with urination

problems, burning, hesitancy etc, we are speaking about men with no symptoms.

I suspect you were a very rare case to have a routine scanning detect a PSA over

400 and then be dx'd Stage IV with a Gleason of 9 and not have really serious

symptoms.

Regardless. it is encouraging that you have the situation under control.

Congratulations.

BTW, the last estimate of increased income if the screening were to become

commonplace is an increase of $25,000 on average....just from so-called routine

screening. Keep in mind it is the Medical profession itself that is

questioning the efficacy of mass screening and our comments are running in that

line of thought.

Joe C.