@tdoriausername Well, that was the problem - they recommended to stop PSA testing because too many men were being ‘harmed’ and it only prevented one man in a thousand from dying from the disease.
We know all too well the result of this misguided recommendation.
Personally, I think this was in response NOT to so many men wanting their prostates removed over cancer fears, but an attempt to stop so many unscrupulous or misguided urologists from telling men ‘You have prostate cancer and you’re gonna die if I don’t operate in you immediately!’
One day, my own GP lamented that he ‘had’ to refer 3 men to the urologist that very morning because their PSA’s were a tad above 4… ‘And you know what THAT means, right?’ he asked.
It was almost as if by screening them he was sentencing them to an awful fate!
And of course the famous “Invasion of the Prostate Snatchers” written in 2010 by Ralph Blum and Dr Mark Scholz made for the perfect storm of fear, confusion and hesitancy to be tested.
After this brief era, the cases of advanced PCa skyrocketed since many, many men - myself included - paused their testing. Hope that helps,
Phil
Phil