The Great Prostate Hoax: How Big Medicine Hijacked the PSA Test and Caused a Public Health Disaster Author: Richard J. Ablin | Language: English | ISBN:
B00HBQ6NY8 | Format: PDF
The Great Prostate Hoax: How Big Medicine Hijacked the PSA Test and Caused a Public Health Disaster Description
Every year, more than a million men undergo painful needle biopsies for prostate cancer, and upward of 100,000 have radical prostatectomies, resulting in incontinence and impotence. But the shocking fact is that most of these men would never have died from this common form of cancer, which frequently grows so slowly that it never even leaves the prostate. How did we get to a point where so many unnecessary tests and surgeries are being done? In
The Great Prostate Hoax, Richard J. Ablin exposes how a discovery he made in 1970, the prostate-specific antigen (PSA), was co-opted by the pharmaceutical industry into a multibillion-dollar business. He shows how his discovery of PSA was never meant to be used for screening prostate cancer, and yet nonetheless the test was patented and eventurally approved by the FDA in 1994. Now, doctors and victims are beginning to speak out about the harm of the test, and beginning to search for a true prostate cancer-specific marker.
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- Print Length: 272 pages
- Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan (March 4, 2014)
- Sold by: Macmillan
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00HBQ6NY8
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After reading this excellent book, I now wonder three years after completing prostate cancer treatment and being cancer free with minimal side effects, if I really needed treatment. When I was diagnosed with prostate cancer my background as a psychologist with an interest in research led me to reviewing the literature on prostate cancer. I became aware of the risks of severe side effects inherent in most prostate cancer treatments and the dangers of the profit driven prostate cancer industry. I then selected the treatment I believe has the least risk of side effects, proton therapy. I discovered that most of the men going through this treatment with me also invested a great deal of time and effort reviewing this same literature. Unfortunately, most men don't seek such knowledge and instead make the understandable mistake of trusting the physician, almost always a urologist, who diagnosed their prostate cancer and then recommends treatment. A very real danger exists when the livelihood of this physician is based on patients agreeing to the treatment he or she is recommending and then providing. Dr. Richard Ablin has clearly achieved his stated goal for writing this book of “...exposing the abuse of power and profit over patient ethos” as the prostate cancer industry incorrectly uses the PSA to scare men into treatment. Men should not automatically agree to the use of the PSA to aid in diagnosing prostate cancer. They should instead get a second opinion from their internist or medical oncologist. Men diagnosed with prostate cancer should consider watchful waiting and also do their research on the side effects of different treatments. I strongly encourage men and their loved ones to read this important book.
Harold Dawley, Ph.D., author – Proton Warriors – Surviving Prostate Cancer AND The Prostate Cancer Industry.
By Harold Dawley, Ph.D., Clinical Psychologist
This is an excellent book that should be read by every man. It is an "eye-opening" education by the scientist that identified PSA. I sincerely hope this book will also be read by the many family practitioners that are at the front line of our health care. Pay extra attention on how they arrived at a PSA level of 4 that prompts many physicians to send their patients to a urologist for a biopsy. It is an extremely easy "read" without a bunch of technical language. It certainly got me thinking.
By COH
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