As a prostate cancer survivor, I am appalled that the USPTF could possibly recommend eliminating the PSA test. I work with many men online and in prostate cancer support groups. We are seeing more and more men in their 40's and 50's being diagnosed with Gleason 3+4=7 or higher grade cancers. These men would not have a chance of living a longer life without the PSA test. Although the PSA test can be admittedly flawed, it is the only test we currently have as a first line defense.

The issue is not with the over diagnosis of Prostate Cancer through the use of the PSA test, but with the vast overtreatment of indolent Gleason 6 tumors. IF you want to positively impact the situation, recommend that urologist stop taking out the prostates of men diagnosed with low risk, low volume Gleason 6 tumors, leaving them with ED and incontinence and treating a tumor that probably would have never progressed to the point of being life threatening. This is where the real issue lies.

Eliminating the PSA test is like sticking your head in the sand (or up a lower part of your anatomy) and hoping that that prostate cancer just goes away.

Henry