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Biden will be here soon: Former President metastatic prostate cancer
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I would bet my eye teeth that most of them were shills for the insurance industry. Why else would routine preventative testing be frowned upon?
A rational man would follow the ‘ounce of prevention’ adage - but not companies whose net bottom line to shareholders is put at risk. They don’t want borderline/mild cases to get treatment - way too expensive in a large population. Better your case should advance and you die sooner.
When I practiced dentistry, Ins. Co’s would NOT pay for sealants on children’s teeth prone to decay. They would not prevent a cavity from forming (small $$) but they would pay for a filling, root canal, crown, etc - which are all much more expensive! Does that make ANY sense to anyone?
Small minded, stupid and nonsensical…but these are the entities directing your treatment.
Phil
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There’s a well-known answer to your first question—> “ Why else would routine preventative testing be frowned upon?”
In the early 2000s, many men were getting routine PSA tests. Unfortunately, so many men lost their minds and panicked when they heard that “you have prostate cancer” (that was low-grade and localized disease) and jumped quickly to getting a prostatectomy when it wasn’t medically necessary. What the medical community found was that often the cure (with its known side/after effects) can be worse than the disease itself.
As a result, the USPSTF (made a decision to keep men from harming themselves and actually) recommended against any routine prostate cancer screening (assigning the screening a “D” recommendation: https://www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/prostate-cancer-screening-2012).
As a result of much political fallout from that “D” recommendation, a few years later (in 2018) they revised that 2012 recommendation to what currently is in place —> the current USPSTF guidelines recommend against PSA screening after age 70 (https://www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/prostate-cancer-screening).
That’s the answer to your first question and how we got here from there.
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Exactly. In their report they said that a psa test can lead to treatments, surgeries and even death! Really they did. Because if they find cancer you need treatment but if you don’t have the test you don’t. That about sums up the task force report. Of course it’s the insurance companies can save money.