We believe that PSA screening is helpful. Sometimes it is not the actual number but the trend line of several PSA’s that helps guide decision making. I have told patient’s many times, “Your PSA is abnormal…but it is normal for you.”
from Medscape.com
BOSTON — Physicians who routinely treat prostate cancer are “very likely” to undergo PSA screening themselves or recommend it to immediate family members, concludes a survey-based study presented here at the American Urological Association (AUA) 2017 Annual Meeting.
In total, 784 (90%) of the 869 physician respondents endorsed past or future screening for themselves or for relatives.
The survey respondents were mostly urologists (83%) and mostly came from North America (68%), as well as Central and South America, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand.
Less overwhelmingly, only 61% of the 807 male respondents had personally undergone PSA screening. However, 94% of the “screen eligible” men said they had taken a PSA test, clarified lead study author Christopher Wallis, MD, from the University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Awkwardly, Dr Wallis did not know the age the AUA recommends most men start screening, when asked by a reporter. He guessed 50…
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