Description: Every year, more than a million men undergo painful needle biopsies for prostate cancer, and upward of 100,000 have radical prostatectomies, resulting in incontinence and impotence. But the shocking fact is that most of these men would never have died from this common form of cancer, which frequently grows so slowly that it never even leaves the prostate. How did we get to a point where so many unnecessary tests and surgeries are being done? In The Great Prostate Hoax, Richard J. Ablin exposes how a discovery he made in 1970, the prostate-specific antigen (PSA), was co-opted by the pharmaceutical industry into a multibillion-dollar business. He shows how his discovery of PSA was never meant to be used for screening prostate cancer, and yet nonetheless the test was patented and eventurally approved by the FDA in 1994. Now, doctors and victims are beginning to speak out about the harm of the test, and beginning to search for a true prostate cancer-specific marker.
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EAN: 9781137278746
UPC: 9781137278746
ISBN: 9781137278746
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Number of Pages: 272 Pages
Publication Name: Great Prostate Hoax : How Big Medicine Hijacked the Psa Test and Caused a Public Health Disaster
Language: English
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Publication Year: 2014
Subject: United States / 20th Century, Men's Health, United States / 21st Century, Evidence-Based Medicine, Urology
Item Height: 0.8 in
Item Weight: 15.9 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 9 in
Author: Richard J. Ablin, Ronald Piana
Subject Area: Health & Fitness, Medical, History
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Hardcover
