{"id":1052947,"date":"2010-06-22T08:16:38","date_gmt":"2010-06-22T08:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.immortalitymedicine.tv\/p-s-a-testing-can%e2%80%99t-detect-prostate-cancer-says-its-discoverer\/"},"modified":"2024-08-17T18:47:03","modified_gmt":"2024-08-17T22:47:03","slug":"p-s-a-testing-cant-detect-prostate-cancer-says-its-discoverer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/neurology\/p-s-a-testing-cant-detect-prostate-cancer-says-its-discoverer.php","title":{"rendered":"P.S.A. testing can\u2019t detect prostate cancer, says its discoverer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_LY7APi0bufs\/RpP9u8OGNwI\/AAAAAAAABek\/ekG7FZPlTpY\/s1600-h\/Gray1152.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.immortalitymedicine.tv\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/fcde8_Gray1152.png\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a>Richard J. Ablin in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/03\/10\/opinion\/10Ablin.html?src=tptw\">NYTimes<\/a>: <\/p><p>\"Approved by the Food and Drug Administration in 1994, the P.S.A. test&rsquo;s popularity has led to a hugely expensive public health disaster.&nbsp;It&rsquo;s an issue I am painfully familiar with &mdash; I discovered P.S.A. in 1970.<\/p><p>The annual bill for P.S.A. screening is at least $3 billion, with much of it paid for by Medicare and the Veterans Administration. <\/p><p>As I&rsquo;ve been trying to make clear for many years now, P.S.A. testing can&rsquo;t detect prostate cancer and, more important, it can&rsquo;t distinguish between the two types of prostate cancer &mdash; the one that will kill you and the one that won&rsquo;t.\"<\/p><p>References:<br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/03\/10\/opinion\/10Ablin.html?src=tptw\">The Great Prostate Mistake<\/a>. 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Ablin in the NYTimes: \"Approved by the Food and Drug Administration in 1994, the P.S.A. test&rsquo;s popularity has led to a hugely expensive public health disaster.&nbsp;It&rsquo;s an issue I am painfully familiar with &mdash; I discovered P.S.A. in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/neurology\/p-s-a-testing-cant-detect-prostate-cancer-says-its-discoverer.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1246864],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1052947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neurology"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052947"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1052947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1052947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1052947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1052947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}