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The pros and cons of PSA tests for prostate cancer for midlife and older men (www.npr.org)

submitted 13 hours ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/health@lemmy.world

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News that Joe Biden has advanced prostate cancer has revived long-standing questions about the benefits versus the harms of a blood test that screens for the most commonly diagnosed cancer among men in the U.S.

Prostate-specific antigen, or PSA, screening tests are an imperfect tool for detecting prostate cancer, doctors and public health experts say.

Part of the problem is identifying and treating aggressive cancers like Biden's while not unnecessarily treating men with slow-growing cancers unlikely to sicken them. Autopsies found the disease to be so widespread that more than one-third of white men and half of Black men in their 70s had prostate cancers that would never do any harm.

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[–] jenni007@lemm.ee 3 points 13 hours ago (4 children)

The man is 80. Everybody has to die of something.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 3 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

He wasn't sitting in a retirement home twiddling his thumbs, he was the fucking president.

There's no excuse for not running this test as part of an annual physical.

Like you're legitimately saying it wouldn't have been a big deal for him to die in office with no advanced notice or time for treatment.

[–] naught@sh.itjust.works 0 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

That isn't what the parent is saying at all

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 3 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

The man is 80. Everybody has to die of something.

Just acting like the US president dying in office wouldn't be a big deal so a blood draw is too much hassle to put him thru is fucking asinine.

He didn't get a PSA since he was VP according to a recent press release.

Thats either a lie or unbelievably stupid. Like, stupid enough that it calls I to question everything else we heard about how healthy he was in office, even if we didn't already know for a fact they were lying about it.

If they wanted us to trust them now, they shouldn't have spent four years lying to everyone.

[–] naught@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 hours ago

I completely agree with you, I just don't think the parent comment was loaded with as many assumptions as you made

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