What Doctors Don't Tell YouMore than 10,000 cases of cancer of the prostate, the walnut-sized gland that sits just below the bladder, are diagnosed every year in the UK. It is the second-most common cause of cancer deaths
Screening for prostate cancer is surrounded by controversy - and with good reason. Although deaths due to prostate cancer have gone down since 1985, when the PSA test
PSA (prostate specific antigen) screening may be unable to detect prostate cancer, some scientists believe. More men who were screened died from prostate cancer compared with those who were not, ...
New evidence suggests that men with early signs of prostate cancer are being missed because screening techniques are inadequate. ...
Increased prostate screening is causing a wrong diagnosis in up to 44 per cent of men, a new report has discovered.
Regular readers will know that the PSA (prostate specific antigen) test is one of the most useless in the whole armoury of medical procedures. It's, at best, a poor predictor of prostate cancer, and is very unreliable when it comes to picking up...
PSA: A test too far and wide
PSA: It's a test that has had its day
One of the reasons given for the so-called advances in the war against cancer is that doctors are now screening for cancer, and so are able to detect and treat it earlier. This belief has become so entrenched in the medical mind that no amount of...
The healing powers of the humble mushroom have been well known in China and Japan for hundreds of years. Now its time may finally have come in the West after a mushroom extract was used to successfully treat three cases of prostate cancer. One...
