Does anyone remember the episode that included the problems with prostate surgeries/treatment? Wanted to share it with my dad but haven't had luck finding it in the search. Thanks!
Hey there!
That episode never actually happened, though it was planned. COVID kind of got in the way I think, but the author stopped responding to me as we were planning it out. However, the book is called The Great Prostate Hoax: https://www.amazon.com/Great-Prostate-Hoax-Medicine-Hijacked/dp/1137278749/
From the description: 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 Great Prostate Hoax, Richard J. Ablin exposes how a discovery he made in 1970, the prostate-specific antigen (PSA), was co-opted by the pharmaceutical industry into a multibillion-dollar business. He shows how his discovery of PSA was never meant to be used for screening prostate cancer, and yet nonetheless the test was patented and eventually approved by the FDA in 1994. Now, doctors and victims are beginning to speak out about the harm of the test, and beginning to search for a true prostate cancer-specific marker.
