@copyman Well, thousands of men die every year worldwide from PCa - and that’s even WITH treatment. So how many men in years past were dying from undiagnosed PCa? Probably many but the cause of death would be something like ‘heart failure’ or ‘pneumonia’, etc…How many men didn’t even make it into their 80’s from a variety of diseases, including PCa?
There is statistical proof that life expectancy for males in the US is markedly higher than it was 100 years ago and a lot of that is diagnostic screening, testing and treatment.
Is it perfect? NO, and I get where you are coming from on an emotional level. Sometimes this all seems like a con, a remedy in search of a problem and I agree that net, net the results are sometimes discouraging.
It does make you wonder…but please think back to 2012 when routine PSA’s were dismissed as overkill and there was the idea that more men were being harmed than saved. We now know this is NOT the case, as evidenced by the surge in more advanced PCa cases…
It turns out that screening, indeed, does save lives…
Phil