Beware: PSA prostate cancer screening test is a dangerous hoax, warns discoverer of prostate specific antigen

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'The standard PSA (prostate specific antigen) test was approved by the FDA in 1994, and each year millions of men are screened via a blood test for the PSA antigen, which is manufactured exclusively by the prostate gland.

For many men, this is when the serious life threatening trouble begins. Early, aggressive allopathic prostate cancer treatment can and does cause permanent damage, including impotence, heart attacks, incontinence and even death from a disease that is, ironically, statistically unlikely to kill them.'

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How About a National Campaign on Prostate Health?

The PSA Controversy

'For decades, a simple routine blood test – the prostate specific antigen (PSA) – was a man’s equivalent to a mammogram. Levels above 3.0 were considered dangerous. When the numbers went higher, doctors were sure patients had prostate cancer. But there are lots of reasons PSA levels can rise—inflammation and infections are but two of them.

Benign enlargement, a physiologic but not cancerous change in prostate tissue, also sends PSA levels up. Conventional medical wisdom believed age drove PSA higher, as well—and created a greater risk for prostate cancer.

Were the experts right?

It turns out a lot of conventional prostate wisdom has been proven unhelpful when it comes to prostate health.' 

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