testing

We are accustomed to the convenient (and lucrative) massaging of statistics that goes on around cancer. The public relations “war” is all about impressing the public and channeling them into the dollars machine, with fear and dread of cancer. Even so, it was quite startling to read that, since the PSA test has been discredited and not used too much, the “incidence” of early stage prostate cancer in older men has plummeted by 25%. See if you follow my reasoning, which is:  there are fewer fake cancers being funneled into the system? That’s pretty shocking. It follows on my repeated advice, which is stay away from doctors. What they call “screening”, fishermen would call casting their nets wider.

We are accustomed to the convenient (and lucrative) massaging of statistics that goes on around cancer. The public relations “war” is all about impressing the public and channeling them into the dollars machine, with fear and dread of cancer. Even so, it was quite startling to read that, since the PSA test has been discredited and not used too much, the “incidence” of early stage prostate cancer in older men has plummeted by 25%. See if you follow my reasoning, which is:  there are fewer fake cancers being funneled into the system? That’s pretty shocking. It follows on my repeated advice, which is stay away from doctors. What they call “screening”, fishermen would call casting their nets wider.