Dr. Ablin believes “that the use of the PSA test for screening asymptomatic men was strictly for money — a lot of money.” And remember, this is the doc who discovered PSAs back in 1970! Now, you guys know what can happen when a PSA screening returns “high” numbers. “They go from PSA, to ultrasonography, to biopsy. It’s a cash cow,” Dr. Ablin says. The “rule” of yearly PSA screenings got its firmly cemented foothold back in 1994 because of three other little letters — F-D-A. That was when the FDA approved it for routine use in all men 50 and older. Dr. Ablin says that during the FDA advisory board meeting back in 1993, experts agreed that PSA screening should not be used as a test for prostate cancer. Yet the FDA went ahead and gave the test its blessings. Dr. Ablin notes that it cost around a million dollars to get that FDA nod. “Does that mean anything? I can’t prove it, but something went on to lead to this approval,” he said. “How else would they have approved a test with an 80 percent false-positive rate?” Dr. Ablin is so outraged at how his discovery of PSA was “hijacked” by Big Pharma just to make big bucks that he documented it in a book called The Great Prostate Hoax. He said the inspiration for the book came when he was told by several Big Pharma heads a few years ago that this test will never go away because “too many people are making too much money to stop this.”
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