Maybe I’m not imagining it: maybe we are all getting a bit more attuned to the problems with screening, even in the US.
But when the doctor who discovered prostate specific antigen (PSA) - which is commonly used to try to detect prostate cancer – writes in an article in the New York Times The Great Prostate Mistake, that “ I never dreamed that my discovery four decades ago would lead to such a profit-driven public health disaster. The medical community must confront reality and stop the inappropriate use of PSA screening. Doing so would save billions of dollars and rescue millions of men from unnecessary, debilitating treatments” hope is definitely in the air.
Margaret McCartney
Clive Cookson
Andrew Jack