> >Had my annual PSA test yesterday.
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> >Possible bad news, but funny at the same time...
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> >PSA=3D2.8, OK, but a BIG jump from last year's 1.4
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> >So more tests :
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> The fun just begins !!!
> Its awfull, and not always conclusive.
It's worse than that. My oncologist mate in Australia claimed in public that he'd sue if anybody measured his PSA.
PSA doesn't distinguish between fast and slow-growing cancers. Since slow-growing cancers are very unlikely to kill you before something else does, they are effectively false positives, and they predominate to such an extent that the PSA test does more harm than good.
-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen