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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