Jon Rogers wrote..
JO>>> Why do a PSA in this circumstance? The value of a "screening" PSA,
JO>>> which this is, is very frugal. We are contemplating stopping GP access
JO>>> to this test unless assessing for disseminated malignancy!
JO>>
JO>Dr D J Plews <[log in to unmask]> replied..
JO>>Who is/are "we"?
JO>>
JO>>Not that I would want to interfere or anything, yes PSA is not
particularly
JO>>specific.
JO>>
JO>The "We" was the GPs, Pathologists and local Health Authority/public
JO>health doctors present at the PSA seminar. It is therefore only a
JO>consideration, and then only in Avon.
The problem is that if the test is available.......
Guidelines in Suffolk were published saying just the above,
i.e. don't do PSA routinely on prastatic symptoms - yet the
hospital did them on all so GPs followed suit.
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