Posted on 10/26/2025 8:45:00 AM PDT by Red Badger
Ask any man over 70 if he wants the PSA test. Probably 95% yes even if it is faulty.
NO..you are not clean..the article states 15% of men with low scores developed prostate cancer anyway.
More important than the raw score is the rate of change in the numbers.
Bkmk
My husband's doctor told him that often happens when people remove their catheters, which you must wear for 2 weeks post surgery, before they're supposed to. The docs don't want your bladder to do any work (pushing urine out, holding it in) AT ALL or incontinence may occur.
He used the Da Vinci robot on my husband to remove the prostate after the PSAs were normal but the digital was different. His cancer was totally contained within the gland and everything went fine. Every nerve was preserved.
For him the worry of leaving a cancerous gland in or doing radiation that might not work was something he couldn't live with.
They say that I need no PSA screening because it’s always low. They do it anyway.
I DO need a colonoscopy every five years because of family history. They always ftnd a few polyps and remove them. Good! (Most polyps never become cancer, however.)
I still have reasons to live—God willing!
My last Colonoscopy had no polyps! 70, probably won’t have any more..............
Later.
Did you mean Butcher's BROOM? I tried googling Butcher's Bloom but it only gives results for Broom...
Actually, physicians delivering care under the auspices of group practice are compelled to follow the group’s guidelines. Free-standing medical practitioners are a rarity in my area.
All men should read this.
“The article is bullshit.”
It would be nice if it were that innocent. IMHO they want to kill men who aren’t propping up the system anymore.
“had to go for the biopsy only to find out there was no cancer”
You sound like you were disappointed.
If they really cared about the health and well being of men, they would find a more definitive test and a confirm it with less complications. As it is, I think they would rather it be diagnosed when there is no hope that any treatment would work. Morphine is cheap.
“But I cringe when I see people write comments about how greedy these people are and that they only practice to make more money. That is simply not the experience of most surgeons and oncologists that I know and have observed.”
I agree. I think doctors are generally pretty smart and hard working, or at least they were before DEI. If all they wanted was money, there are many far easier ways for a smart and hard working person to make a lot of money than to be a doctor.
Oh no, quite the contrary, but I was upset because I feel the PSA score was elevated either deliberately, or as a doctor on the base I worked at told, something as simple as having sex or making a huge deposit with Dr. Toilet can cause elevated scores. If I had really thought about it, and did my research, I would have waited and tested again before going the route that I did.
There are a number of different methods of PSA testing. I happened to have gotten 2 PSA test the same week one was elevated the other was normal so the urologist sent me to a different lab for a 3rd test and it came back in the middle of the first 2. On to the biopsy and is was early stage but aggressive cancer. So HIFU was a good option.
The article is not “bullsh#t”.
I had an intrusive, uncomfortable biopsy (I called it the “staple gun”) based on PSA’s months apart that my urologist said was an alarming trend, though I think the numbers were still in the normal range (barely over 3 for the last one, in my case). And based on a family history.
The quack who ordered this also ordered another test that cost me $500 out of pocket, not covered by insurance.
Today, over 10 years later, my PSA is 1.12.
If this happens to you, get a second opinion, and get another PSA test - it could be a minor infection treatable with antibiotics (I had an 8.5 PSA once, an infection I was unaware of).
Unless your cancer is very aggressive and advanced, there isn’t a need to rush into a biopsy without further PSA testing for consistency, and a round of antibiotics.
I’m a believer in the PSA test and finger-wave, though.
One way to get it free is to apply for some life insurance!
,,, oh, really? When was your biopsy?
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