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Getting PSA results with impossible fluctuation: What's up?
Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Mar 11 8:47pm | Replies (46)Comment receiving replies
@brianjarvis When you read that study, you really have to wonder where those conclusions came from:
There was only ONE man in 1000 screened who benefitted from PSA screening 14 yrs after diagnosis…
I think we know that numbers can be ‘massaged’ to fit a certain outcome but this was a real fiasco.
I, too, was one of those men who read this flawed study and stopped my testing for a full year; don’t know if it would have made a difference in my case but I am sure it did - for the worse - in many others. Thanks for the article!
Phil
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@heavyphil I don’t get it. Why would you stop PSA testing. I think it is a great tool. It doesn’t cure or diagnose but it can monitor progression once you have established a diagnoses and degree of the condition.
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@heavyphil I never stopped PSA testing; started in 2000, and continued annual testing despite all the noise.
I realize that with large data pools - such as are used in population studies, clinical trials, and by insurance companies - matter at the macro-level, but have little meaning on what an individual’s results will be.
(As a retired computer scientist, I remember the old saying - “Numbers will say anything you want them to if you torture them long enough.”