The Great Prostate Hoax: How Big Medicine Hijacked the Psa Test and Caused a Public Health Disaster

by Richard J. Ablin and Ronald Piana

Book Overview

Every year, more than a million men undergo painful needle biopsies for prostate cancer, and upward of 100,000 have radical prostatectomies, resulting in incontinence and impotence. But the shocking fact is that most of these men would never have died from this common form of cancer, which frequently grows so slowly that it never even leaves the prostate. How did we get to a point where so many unnecessary tests and surgeries are being done? In The...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137278749
• ISBN13: 9781137278746
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.1"