I purchased this book two weeks before i was due to under a biopsy on my pancreas. He shows how his discovery of psa was never meant to be used for screening prostate cancer, and yet nonetheless the test was patented and. Reveals how fearbased and inaccurate testing is resulting in unnecessary highrisk surgeries, arguing that the psa. It all started after my doctor informed that my psa prostate specific antigen. Download book the great prostate hoax in pdf format. A call to arms, which discussed the book, the great prostate hoax. Read the great prostate hoax how big medicine hijacked the psa test and caused a public health disaster.
You can read online the great prostate hoax here in pdf, epub, mobi or docx formats. Psa discoverer says antigen test is misused, unreliable medscape. Every year, more than a million men undergo painful needle. The great prostate hoax begins with a historical perspective on the discovery of psa and its acceptance by the fda and the urology community, first in 1986 to monitor those with prostate cancer and later in 1994 to screen for the disease. Unfortunately, the book quickly leaves historical reality and begins to make unfounded, usually. Ablin exposes how a discovery he made in 1970, the prostate specific antigen psa, was coopted by the pharmaceutical industry into a multibilliondollar business. Henry rosevears blog post about my recently published book. Ablin has recently coauthored a book titled the great prostate hoax macmillan, 2014. There is, he says, no reason to do so on a healthy man, he explains in his book the great prostate hoax. The following was written in response to a blog post by henry rosevear, md the great prostate cancer hoax. The great prostate hoax is the answer to my prayers, finally getting the message out to millions of men in jeopardy of undergoing unnecessary and debilitating treatments. How big medicine hijacked the psa test and caused a public health disaster by. Pdf download the great prostate hoax free nwc books. Why the prostate cancer test is useless new york post.
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