... that's why the NHS decided NOT to have a prostate screening
programme! The website has the following links, look at the wording
carefully:
[ Home | Breast Screening | Cervical Screening | Colorectal Screening |
Prostate Cancer Risk Management | Screening News |
Contact NHS Screening ]
Jonathan
On Thursday, October 10, 2002, at 01:14 , Reynolds Tim wrote:
> Sadly, the point of the PSA screening program is not what we think it
> is.
> Really, it allows the Goverment to say that they are doing something for
> men's health, in the same way that cervical and breast screening are
> claimed
> to help women's health. All three program's are really political
> initiatives
> designed to make voters feel positively inclined towards politicians.
>
> It is apposite that the PSA screening information should come out
> simultaneously with papers in the BMJ dealing with the
> (non-)effectiveness
> of PSA screening in Seattle & Connecticut where despite a massive
> increase
> in radical prostatectomy and radiotherapy in Seattle there was no
> effect on
> prostate cancer related death relative to Connecticut where prostate
> screening had not been practiced.
>
> The BMJ editorial in the same issue also was critical in stating that
> the
> function of screening is actually to convert healthy individuals into
> patients [at great cost]. with little evidence of benefit...
>
> TIM
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