While prostate cancer is still the second leading cause of death for American men, early detection and advanced treatments have combined to reduce the mortality rate from prostate cancer by nearly 40 percent in the last two decades. During that same time period, we have seen dramatically less metastatic disease than in my earliest days of treating men with prostate cancer in New Jersey 25 years ago before the PSA screening era.
via They got it wrong again – www.phillyburbs.com: Reader Voices.
This editorial was written by a colleague of mine at Garden State Urology in response to the USPSTF Final Recommendation on PSA Screening states that men should not receive PSA testing.
As a urologist who deals with prostate cancer on a regular basis, this is an extremely disappointing recommendation. The issue will remain in the forefront of health care debates in the months and years to come.