Prostate Cancer Early Detection

[madman]

Peter R. Carroll, MD, MPH, discusses guidelines and research on prostate cancer early detection and ways to avoid unnecessary biopsies.

 

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[tcmi]

Good advice!

The big flaw with the minimal “lives saved” argument, which is essentially suggesting that screening should be very limited, is that there can be a long, hard road between detecting PCa and actually dying from the PCa. So the death count ignores those that require extensive treatments (with significant side effects) due to the PCa remaining undetected until advanced / metastasized.