The Rise and Fall of the Prostate Cancer Scam

In 1973, we urologists had prostate cancer about right, no screening, no radiation, and no radical surgery. All cancers discovered were assumed to be metastatic from the get-go. If any treatment was necessary, it was systemic hormone deprivation. But, ten years later (1983 - 1987) radical surgery was revived without new evidence; ultrasound probes were miniaturized to fit in the rectum; and the PSA blood test was described as capable of finding new cancers but as lacking the specificity required for screening. The whole world screened anyway. Money poured into U.S. hospitals and faculty practice plans.

Post-radical surgery deaths (2600) peaked in 1992. By the autumn of 2011, two reports had showed that radical surgery did not lengthen cancer specific life compared to nothing. PSA screening was found by the Preventive Task Force of the U.S. Federal government to cause more harm than good. This book reinforces their statement,

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The Rise and Fall of the Prostate Cancer Scam

In 1973, we urologists had prostate cancer about right, no screening, no radiation, and no radical surgery. All cancers discovered were assumed to be metastatic from the get-go. If any treatment was necessary, it was systemic hormone deprivation. But, ten years later (1983 - 1987) radical surgery was revived without new evidence; ultrasound probes were miniaturized to fit in the rectum; and the PSA blood test was described as capable of finding new cancers but as lacking the specificity required for screening. The whole world screened anyway. Money poured into U.S. hospitals and faculty practice plans.

Post-radical surgery deaths (2600) peaked in 1992. By the autumn of 2011, two reports had showed that radical surgery did not lengthen cancer specific life compared to nothing. PSA screening was found by the Preventive Task Force of the U.S. Federal government to cause more harm than good. This book reinforces their statement,

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The Rise and Fall of the Prostate Cancer Scam

The Rise and Fall of the Prostate Cancer Scam

by Anthony H Horan M D
The Rise and Fall of the Prostate Cancer Scam

The Rise and Fall of the Prostate Cancer Scam

by Anthony H Horan M D

Overview

In 1973, we urologists had prostate cancer about right, no screening, no radiation, and no radical surgery. All cancers discovered were assumed to be metastatic from the get-go. If any treatment was necessary, it was systemic hormone deprivation. But, ten years later (1983 - 1987) radical surgery was revived without new evidence; ultrasound probes were miniaturized to fit in the rectum; and the PSA blood test was described as capable of finding new cancers but as lacking the specificity required for screening. The whole world screened anyway. Money poured into U.S. hospitals and faculty practice plans.

Post-radical surgery deaths (2600) peaked in 1992. By the autumn of 2011, two reports had showed that radical surgery did not lengthen cancer specific life compared to nothing. PSA screening was found by the Preventive Task Force of the U.S. Federal government to cause more harm than good. This book reinforces their statement,

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781641119856
Publisher: On the Write Path Publishing
Publication date: 07/06/2020
Edition description: 3rd ed.
Pages: 188
Product dimensions: 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Anthony H. Horan, M.D., a graduate of Dartmouth College, received his medical degree from Columbia's College of Physicians and Surgeons. He did his internship in internal medicine and one year of general surgical residency at St. Luke's Hospital in New York. After two years in the Air Force as a general surgeon, Horan returned to New York for a Urology Residency at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital. After seven years of solo private practice in New York City with an appointment as instructor at the New York Medical College, he left to be Associate Professor of Surgery (Urology) at Marshall University in West Virginia. That was a VA based medical school. This led, eventually, to his appointment as Associate Clinical Professor of Urology, UCSF, at the Fresno VA hospital. There, he gathered and published the crucial data that led to this book. After becoming fully vested, he did an additional 14 years of solo private practice in Wyoming and California. He fully retired in the spring of 2018.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Epidemics of over-zealous case finding and over-treatment in other cancers.

Chapter 2: Benign prostatic hypertrophy (BPH), a non-malignant tumor of the prostate that can kill you.

Chapter 3: Prostate specific antigen (PSA) testing; its lack of specificity.

Chapter 4: Transrectal ultrasound guided biopsy: this is progress?

Chapter 5: A history of radical prostatectomy to the present day.

Chapter 6: Geographic variations in rates of radical prostatectomy.

Chapter 7: Two complications of radical prostatectomy, death and urinary incontinence.

Chapter 8: Sex after radiation/radical surgery.

Chapter 9: Radiation for prostate cancer.

Chapter 10: The intrinsic, systemic nature of prostate cancer; the detection of cancer cells in the blood,bone marrow, and lymph nodes by molecular means.

Chapter 11: Medical castration prolongs cancer specific life.

Chapter 12: The growth of prostate cancer: why it is often so slow.

Chapter 13: Humanists report on their experience with prostate cancer.

Chapter 14: The instinct for order: a counter-reformation by the American Urological Association, theMedicare Administration, the Veterans Administration, and the British Working Party.

Chapter 15: Deconstruction and the great disruption.

Chapter 16: The role of medical schools, universities, and resident training hospitals in the epidemic ofprostate cancer care.

Chapter 17: Medicine as a business: business as a form of government. Profits in prostate cancer.

Chapter 18: The Confidence Game weakens after the U.S. Preventative Task Force (USPTF) statement in 2012.

Chapter 19: New Systemic Therapies.

Chapter 20: Coda.

Chapter 21: Prescription.

Chapter 22: A glossary of terms necessary to understand this book.

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