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Why I always skip the prostate cancer screenings
Hey, Matt Cook here, and prostate cancer is very real, and it can kill…
…However, I think that the risks from prostate cancer are much less than most people are led to believe.
Let me explain…
Time and time again, studies have shown that prostate cancer screening results in massive cases of overdiagnosis.
Up to 50% of men who have been told that they have prostate cancer do not have the disease at all.
At least they will not go on to develop any problematic symptoms needing treatment.
Large studies have shown that the amount of lives saved by prostate cancer screening are tiny – some studies found no benefit at all in terms of mortality.
Large meta-analysis of numerous human studies found no benefit for prostate cancer screening in men with a life expectancy of 15 years or less.
Many men may be undergoing pointless cancer treatments because of overdiagnosis…
…or to treat cancers which are so slow moving that they would never see any effect from them.
This is shocking when you take into account the severe decrease in quality of life caused by cancer treatments.
This first paper was written by scientists at the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. It was published in The New England Journal Of Medicine.
The research analyzed data taken from a prostate cancer screening study which was started in the early 1990s in Europe.
Over 180,000 men between the ages of 50 and 74 years old were included in the research.
Some men were offered prostate cancer screening via the PSA blood test every four years.
Another group was not offered screening for prostate cancer.
This study found a very tiny benefit accrued from prostate cancer screening in terms of risk of death from prostate cancer.
According to this research, you would need to screen about 1,500 men in order to save 1 life.
“The absolute difference in risk of death from prostate cancer was 0.71 per thousand men.”
Some of the men who were in the control group – who were not screened by the PSA test…
…later went on to develop diagnosed prostate cancer – because they had symptoms.
But the rates of prostate cancer diagnosis in the men who were screened was much higher than that of men who were not screened.
“The cumulative incidence of prostate cancer was 8.2% in the screening group and 4.8% in the control group.”
In other words, the PSA screening test causes significant overdiagnosis of prostate cancer in terms of any health problems that would occur later on.
“PSA-based screening was associated with a high risk of overdiagnosis.”
Another study from Washington University School of Medicine was published in the same journal.
This time the researchers screened some men with the PSA test and added a digital rectal examination.
Probably more accurate…
Some men were screened, others were not.
They found no significant difference in the risk of death from prostate cancer between the 2 groups.
“After 7 to 10 years of follow-up, the rate of death from prostate cancer was very low and did not differ significantly between the two study groups.”
There are a lot of these types of studies which have been peer-reviewed and published in major journals.
Researchers at Monash University in Melbourne Australia carried out a systematic review of a number of these studies.
This review amalgamated data from 5 different randomized controlled human trials.
These trials looked at the effect of prostate cancer screening on death from prostate cancer.
The analyzed information from over 340,000 men.
This massive data analysis of human randomized controlled studies found that there was no benefit to prostate cancer screening.
“Prostate cancer screening did not significantly decrease all cause or prostate cancer specific mortality.”
But you can be sure that the treatments for prostate cancer cause a lot of harm.
Both surgery and treatments for prostate cancer will significantly lower your quality of life.
The authors of that study went so far as to state that men who have a life expectancy of 10 to 15 years or less…
…may only be harmed by prostate cancer screening.
“Men who have a life expectancy of 10 to 15 years or less should be informed that screening for prostate cancer is not beneficial and has harms.”
Prostate cancer diagnosis and treatment could be beneficial for some men…
…but numerous studies point out that the current system of prostate cancer screening may be causing far more harm than good.
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