>> good news for those of us who are rubber glove phobic <<
You’ve got it exactly backwards. The “rubber glove” exam will become EVEN MORE important in the absence of the PSA test.
Uh..no...this is the good news and it's what my own family doctor told me.
This is one of those conditions where ignorance can truly be bliss. Most men who live long enough will develop cancer of the prostate. And for most of them, it will be effectively harmless. The idea of a harmless cancer may be hard to grasp. Typically, though, prostate cancer grows very slowly and has no symptoms, and by the time it gets around to killing you, you're already dead
Either test is unnecessary unless you want to be super-safe.