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Biden will be here soon: Former President metastatic prostate cancer
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Peter I understand what you are saying about it being intrusive! But how simple is a PSA Test? I had not been checked in several years! I just wanted to ease my mind! I had gone through Stage IV colon cancer 25 years ago, so cancer is always on my mind!
Don't you think a simple PSA Test would have caught Biden's cancer long before it got worse!
Thanks,
Sundance, aka, RB
Replies to "Peter I understand what you are saying about it being intrusive! But how simple is a..."
Just mind-reading here, but I don't think they're concerned about a blood test so much as the can of worms it could open if the result isn't good.
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"Don't you think a simple PSA Test would have caught Biden's cancer long before it got worse!"
Yes, it might have, although the aggressive type of prostate cancer can develop and spread to bones so fast that it sometimes happens between annual PSA tests (as was the case with one of my hospital roommates).
Still, PSA screening is very simple, cheap, and non-invasive blood test (it's not like they have to more-or-less crush a sensitive part of our body in a vice, as happens with women getting mammograms), so there's no excuse for the 2012 recommendation to stop or delay PSA screening. As I wrote earlier, if the problem was overtreatment, then just stop overtreating.