The Great Prostate Hoax: How Big Medicine Hijacked the PSA Test and Caused a Public Health Disaster
"The Great Prostate Hoaxboldly exposes the profit, politics and fraud behind PSA screening, and the serious harm done to countless men. This is a must-read foreveryman, and the women who care about them." —Margaret I. Cuomo, M.D., author ofA World Without Cancer"Dick Ablin, the discoverer of PSA, provides the inside story of how it became P$A, a veritable public health disaster, harming millions of men.The Hoaxis a unique and provocative look into big medicine and why we desperately need a better way forward." —Eric J. Topol, MD, Director, Scripps Translational Science Institute, Chief Academic Officer, Scripps Health and Professor of Genomics, The Scripps Research Institute; Author, The Creative Destruction of Medicine “An intriguing story of how strong financial interests can trump weak data.  And it goes well beyond the usual suspect – the manufacturer of the PSA test – to those who gain from more prostate cancer treatments and from cleaning up the resulting mess.”—H. Gilbert Welch MD, MPH, author ofOverdiagnosed: Making People Sick in the Pursuit of Health"The Great Prostate Hoaxis the answer to my prayers, finally getting the message out to millions of men in jeopardy of undergoing unnecessary and debilitating treatments.Hoaxsends a clear message that those who profit from PSA testing are doing so at the expense of countless men. A must read." —Alvin Cox, prostate cancer survivor who defied a nationally renowned urologist.