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I was talking to Dr Robert Malone last night (you can watch our conversation here) and the conversation got onto an excellent article over on Robert’s Substack on the topic of Prostate Cancer.
Now this is a topic that will be of interest to many people and I have a personal interest in the topic since my father died of prostate cancer. I wrote about Olympian cyclist Chris Hoy who has been diagnosed with terminal prostate cancer here and the media is full of stories like this suggesting it is VITAL that men get their prostate health checked. We need be be careful that we are not being gaslighted into accepting an unwise course of action.
It all comes down to whether or not you think that the widespread use of the PSA test is a good idea. If there is one thing we should all have learned over the past four years it is that mass testing for ANYTHING should be judged cautiously and with a critical eye. The PSA test that the “experts” are urging as many men as possible to take has a false positive rate of 78% – ring any bells? So this means many men will be given the stress that they have prostate cancer when this may well be untrue. An elevated PSA has several possible causes so once again we see the familiar pattern of Big Medicine pushing a bogus test on the population Worse still is that fact that some men recording a high PSA may be coerced into having biopsies and un-necessary surgery. This can have life changing consequences for them and all for something that they may not actually have in the first place.
As I said in my piece on Chris Hoy, the fact is that only around 3% of men DIE directly from Prostate cancer (Source; New England Journal of Medicine) and further getting surgery or having radiation treatment makes little difference to the outcome. The radical prostatectomies favoured by some doctors has not been shown to offer improved survival outcomes although the impact on the men undergoing them can only be but imagined. It is suggested that 1 in 600 prostate surgeries result in the death of the patient and much higher levels of incontinence and impotency.
What we saw during Covid turns out to be more typical than many of us thought. Use a flawed test to generate a positive result and then apply a treatment more harmful than the underlying condition. No one is underplaying the problem with Prostate Cancer but by the same token, we should not underestimate the savagery of the surgery and the inaccuracy of the testing regime.
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