Top 10 PSA test flaws : PSA : Prostate cancer

The PSA has a top 10 list of alarming flaws. Not only is this PSA (prostate specific antigen) test highly unreliable. In this video you will learn that;
the specific label is false - the PSA is not specific for cancer or for the prostate
the PSA is associated with a 78% false positive rate
its limits of 0-4ng/ml as normal are meaningless and made up
there's NO evidence that PSA testing or screening saves significant numbers of lives

Please drop questions and comments below and hit SUBSCRIBE if this video helped.

Links.
What’s the Truth About Prostate Cancer?
https://howardwolinsky.substack.com/p...

  / whats-the-truth-about-prostate-cancer  

When the cure is worse than the disease
  / why-some-cures-are-worse-than-the-disease  


PSA has 78% false-positive rate
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...

PSA testing fails to save significant numbers of lives
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056...

The Gleason 6 is a bogus cancer - see Table 1
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...

https://ascopost.com/issues/december-...

12-core prostate needle biopsy samples 0.1% of the prostate
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...

Prostate cancer surgery fails to save lives
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056...

Surgery, radiation or NO treatment have same 15 year survival
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056...

The case against prostate checks and screening - multiple embedded links
https://howardwolinsky.substack.com/p...

Most prostate cancer claims are exaggerations and misrepresentations
https://lundberginstitute.org/the-sor...

Most published research is false
https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicin...

Only 11% of medical treatments are of known benefit
https://theincidentaleconomist.com/wo...

Books
The Great Prostate Hoax by R. Ablin PhD and R. Piana
The Rise and Fall of the Prostate Cancer Scam by Anthony H. Horan MD