{"id":291,"date":"2011-10-10T08:09:07","date_gmt":"2011-10-10T12:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/?p=291"},"modified":"2011-10-10T08:09:07","modified_gmt":"2011-10-10T12:09:07","slug":"psa-test-a-public-health-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/psa-test-a-public-health-disaster\/","title":{"rendered":"PSA Test &#8211; a Public Health Disaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Richard J. Albin, creator of the PSA test for prostate cancer, says that the devastating consequences treatments including surgery and\u00a0radiation therapy caused:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a05,000 deaths soon after surgery<\/li>\n<li>up\u00a0to 70,000 serious complications<\/li>\n<li>50% had persistent blood in their semen<\/li>\n<li>up\u00a0to 300,000 suffered impotence, incontinence or both.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>He now calls the widespread use of the PSA test a &#8220;Public Health Disaster.&#8221;\u00a0 As a result of these findings, the\u00a0U.S. Preventive Services Task Force will recommend that healthy men no longer receive PSA testing.<\/p>\n<p>Unnecessary tests and treatments of all kinds\u00a0are estimated to cost $250 Billion in the U.S. The cost to patients and their families are probably at least another $250 Billion as suggested by the prostate data above. That&#8217;s a half-a-trillion dollars we could save to pay for healthcare reform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Richard J. Albin, creator of the PSA test for prostate cancer, says that the devastating consequences treatments including surgery and&nbsp;radiation therapy caused: &nbsp;5,000 deaths soon after surgery up&nbsp;to 70,000 serious complications 50% had persistent blood in their semen up&nbsp;to 300,000 suffered impotence, incontinence or both. He now calls the widespread use of the PSA [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,7],"tags":[49,77],"class_list":["post-291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lean","category-service","category-six-sigma","tag-healthcare-costs","tag-psa-test"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}