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Biden will be here soon: Former President metastatic prostate cancer
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Exactly. It was such a wrong-headed response. If there's a risk of overtreatment, change the *treatment* guidelines, not the *screening* guidelines (and in fact, treatment guidelines have changed dramatically since 2012, essentially nullifying the concerns at the time).
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Yes, it was a knee-jerk reaction to choices of medical procedures that should have been limited (which would have caused outcries as well — “….It’s my right!……”); and the guidelines are just guidelines. Still (even today) too many are getting radical treatments when it’s medically-unnecessary (just as in 2012).
And the doctors will do anything they’re asked to do: if you don’t want to use ADT, but instead want an orchiectomy…guess what they’ll cut off — just because it was requested.
I’m not so sure treatment guidelines have changed that much. Technological and medical advances have been made and provided more options, but guidelines are quite similar to what they were 30+ years ago (see attached news article from 1992).