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Subject: [Leica] OT PSA Screening: Has the Death Knell Been Sounded?
From: pjleeson at mchsi.com (Philip Leeson)
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 18:16:06 -0500
References: <F43DC64A-124E-4FE3-9482-4D23A12030D8@gmail.com> <CAF8hL-F4U-Ga+SghW1fd9siuGtgjQoQODJVmciTCy12Ha73pfA@mail.gmail.com> <754EFE77-E729-40A1-929A-024D6D32F539@mchsi.com>

And here's the "executive summary" in NEJM referenced in Medscape:

http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1111894?query=featured_home

Phil

 
On Oct 28, 2011, at 6:12 PM, Philip Leeson wrote:

> As a practicing Internist, I deal with this daily.
> I'd suggest an occasional PSA in the 50's and if normal, no further 
> testing.
> And here's an interesting condemnation of the current testing strategy; 
> form the discoverer of PSA, no less:
> 
> http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/10/opinion/10Ablin.html
> 
> More testing is not always better.
> And oftentimes the treatment causes more problems than the underlying 
> disease.
> 
> Phil
> 
> 
> 
> On Oct 28, 2011, at 3:25 PM, Richard Man wrote:
> 
>> Needs login? How about an executive summary :-)?
>> 
>> On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 1:19 PM, Steve Barbour <steve.barbour at 
>> gmail.com>wrote:
>> 
>>> fyi
>>> 
>>> 
>>> http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/752482?sssdmh=dm1.729585&src=nldne
>>> 
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