Monday, May 31, 2004

A Study Questions Blood-Test Results on Prostate Cancer. Significant numbers of older men whose results on a popular screening test for prostate cancer are normal may nonetheless have cancer. By Gina Kolata. [New York Times: Health] While I appreciate this long-overdue, reasonable look at the dilemma of screening for prostate cancer, I do wish that Ms. Kolata would have found some rabid PSA screening advocate to respond to some of this information.  This new information makes things MORE unsure about the utility of the test, which is what many, especially in the evidence-based family practice community, have been saying all along...I look forward to all the reaction. 7:49:47 PM