# of Deaths Down Since Beginning Widespread PSA Testing? Nope! Don't Believe So!

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Yesterday I saw this on a " Natural Healing From Prostate Cancer "

board:

 

" Deaths from prostate cancer have fallen about 20% among whites and

about 16% among blacks since the mid-1990s after use of the PSA test

became widespread " .

 

William Catalona MD From USA Today article

 

I was very skeptical. I know, for instance, that lending institutions

have billions of dollars invested in bone marrow transplant machinery

at Dana Farber Cancer Factory in Boston, and they have to make their

profit somehow, so they like to select the best specimens they can

for transplants---ones who will most likely survive for 5 years

subsequent to the transplant. ( " Survive " is the right term, by the

way, not " live. " There is a real difference...)

 

I emailed a friend of mine who told me this is how they are

manipulating survival statistics with PSA/Prostate Cancer:

 

" This is how it works. They are testing men earlier now. Men of the

same age group a few years ago would not have known that they had

prostate cancer and infact would probably still be happily trodding

around with no symptoms of pain whatsoever.

 

So they test earlier and they spot prostate cancer which goes into the

records as cancer detected. They slice, cut, burn, emasculate whatever

on those men i.e. " treat " them. Now these men if they did not know

they had prostate cancer, and therefore did not seek treatment, the

majority would be still alive after 5 or 10 years.

 

But because it goes in the records that they have cancer (due to PSA

testing), and then went for the " treatment " , survived the 5 year

period, they are considered cured and did not die! Remember that

American Cancer Assoc considers cancer in remission for 5 years as a

cured cancer LOL!! In the past they PSA'ed them at a later stage,

they are probably so old that they die of something else and " damn "

they did not make the 5 year cut off, so no cure <dws: dripping with

sarcasm>

 

So of course this statistical manipulation or aberration results in

a " declining " rate. "