I had steam coming out of my ears as they reported "In fact, 80 percent
of PSA results are false alarms."

This new test is up ten years away from being approved, as reported in
the same segment.

Now they've told a bunch of guys who thought they had to have regular
PSA tests that there's an 80% chance they're wrong anyways. PCa is
still a nightmare to consider and so a whole bunch of those guys are
gonna think this is a reason not to have tests. They'll be at their
oncologist a few years later with bone pain and incurable PCa. I hope
these idiots from ABC News can sleep well considering that they've
probably killed lots of men who would have been cured had they followed
their Uros instructions and reacted to PSA and DRE results.

The MD's who reported these results are obviously energetic about this
new detection scenario. So am I, but it ain' there yet and there's no
reason to put down PSA testing in order to promote their agenda.

Does anybody know where these stats have come from? Is it that AMA
article? It didn't take me,a layman, long to shoot holes in that
analysis. It wasn't "wrong", just tunnel visioned, and I don't remember
that 80% figure. Does this mean that 80% of PSA driven biopsies are
negative? So what are the percentages of PSA driven biopsies that don't
detect real PCa? What a way to twist statistics.

I'll bet that this statistic includes real negatives as well as false
positives. In other words the test report a low PSA and no need to do a
biopsy. Of course they don't talk aout DREs.

I'll wait a bit before firing off a scathing email to the ABC News
team. In my opinion somebody ought to sue them for reporting such
statistics without validating them. If someone can substantiate this
data let me know.