Category Archives: Cancer screening

PSA & New York Times

Posted on October 7, 2011 by

Healthy men should no longer receive a P.S.A. blood test to screen forprostate cancer because the test does not save lives over all and often leads to more tests and treatments that needlessly cause pain,impotence and incontinence in many, a key government health panel … Continue reading →

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Independent Events

Posted on June 17, 2011 by

                       Image via WikipediaIndependent Events I was speaking with a patient recently who was explaining why he thought that colon cancer screening with fecal occult blood testing (FOBT) was equivalent to colonoscopy. He wished to avoid colonoscopy for all the … Continue reading →

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