The reason for this totally illogical action is primarily that there is no long term controlled trial proving that prostate cancer screening reduces mortality. Let me state what I believe to be the important facts. Early detection of prostate cancer can result in significantly better long-term outcomes for men who develop aggressive prostate cancer. There are several other studies, one by the Mayo clinic, that support what common sense tells us. Nearly 40,000 men die in the US every year from prostate cancer.
Prostate cancer is felt by all who know it to be one of the cruelest ways to die.
As one physician stated A slow and lingering death in such excruciating pain that their loved ones pray for death. I have little patience with the often stated position that more men die with prostate cancer than because of it . That is of little relevance to the nearly 40,000 men who die every year in the United States from this terrible disease. When the definitive clinical trials to determine if screening reduces mortality complete in 2008 over 300,000 additional men will have died of prostate cancer. I can t estimate the suffering.