[lbo-talk] The PSA scam

[Carrol Cox]

Thanks. Probably it would be a scam even if the test were not hooey.
Treatment for prostate cancer is in most cases silly. It's slow working
anyhow, and many men have had a lot of misery with surgery with no real
gain in lifespan.

Carrol

Alan Rudy wrote:
> 
> prostate-specific antigen...
> the scam is that the test is hooey
> 
> On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 11:44 AM, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
> 
> > What is the PSA. What is the scam. I have given up reading web sites
> > unless there is an overwhelming importance to a particular text that
> > makes it worht th eye strain and the agony of reading blurred text.
> >
> > Carrol