PSA TEST MESS
How not to get killed by it.
The scientist who originally discovered the PSA test has finally tossed in the towel. After tracking results of using it for over 20 years, he flatly declares that the test is no longer finding significant cancers." This simply confirms the warning to "Health Sciences Institute" in Frederick MD 21705-9913. My Senior Tennis League is plagued with cases in which their doctors are insisting on biopsies. As many as half of all men getting biopsies because of high PSA readings don’t have cancer at all. But the are suffering needless pain, bleeding and infections from the biopsies. So what’s a man to do?
Skip the test? That’s what an expert writing in the prestigious British Medical Journal seemed to imply when he recently declared, "the one certainty about PSA testing is that it causes harm."
But wait a minute! What about men with high PSA readings who really do have cancer? Should they simply ignore the danger signs? Clearly, the PSA test correctly predicts cancer sometimes. Isn’t there any way to improve the accuracy? Yes, in fact, there is.
What to do. HSI recently advised its members to follow up abnormally high PSA readings with a little - known screening procedure called AMAS. This simple blood test detects a substance called antimalignin antibody. As explained in the latest report to HSI members, this AMAS blood test has an accuracy of 95%. Most importantly, AMAS levels tend to rise early in the disease, which means that cancer may be caught even when an initial biopsy might miss it.
If your doctor hasn’t yet heard about the AMAS test, HSI can provide full details in the report titled, "The Perfect Prostate Cure": Today’s Greatest Medicines for Men.
Prostate Disease, both cancerous and benign, is so prevalent among older men that doctors here regard it as nearly inevitable. But for a number of years now, Dr. Hoang has been curing both kinds quite reliably, using a traditional Vietnamese herb that’s all but unheard of here in the west. Dr. Hoang’s breakthrough has received nearly zero attention here.
But all this changed very recently, when Ken Malik, the co-founder and Executive Director of the Prostate Awareness Foundation was diagnosed with prostate cancer. He literally searched the world for a natural approach and found out about Dr. Hoang’s herbal treatment in January of 2002. He was hoping for any improvement, but imagine his shock and delight when his 2005 biopsy showed only three microscopic tumors. Ken was excited enough to organize an informal trial of the herb. After 3 months, the vast majority of cancer sufferers in this trial showed functional improvement. And this is just the tip of the iceberg.
In Vietnam, they have been meticulously recording outcomes. Doctors in one practice report they have biopsies confirming quite a few cases of advanced prostrate cancer—the "incurable" kind—were completely cured by this herbal treatment alone.
Equally fine results for BPH. The International Hospital researched it for 7 years as a treatment for benign prostrate swelling. Their urologists tracked the results very thoroughly, even measuring prostate size. They reported astonishing success for 92.6% of patients—more than 9 out of 10.
Intriguingly, the herb is so valued in Vietnam that it once was reserved for the royal family. Scientist are still puzzling about exactly how it works.
We will continue our quest for a cure and report to you our findings. Meanwhile, it requires a public that is engaged in asserting their rights to dictate to their doctors the procedures they will and will not undergo. Please don’t go blindly into the test, when you have questions as to the accuracy and the serious and needless suffering, bleeding and infections from the biopsies. Trust your instincts and don’t proceed with a healthcare system that is bent upon spending billions of dollars on tests that produce one certainty about PSA testing — that is that it causes harm!
The scientist who originally discovered the PSA test has finally tossed in the towel. After tracking results of using it for over 20 years, he flatly declares that the test is no longer finding significant cancers." This simply confirms the warning to "Health Sciences Institute" in Frederick MD 21705-9913. My Senior Tennis League is plagued with cases in which their doctors are insisting on biopsies. As many as half of all men getting biopsies because of high PSA readings don’t have cancer at all. But the are suffering needless pain, bleeding and infections from the biopsies. So what’s a man to do?
Skip the test? That’s what an expert writing in the prestigious British Medical Journal seemed to imply when he recently declared, "the one certainty about PSA testing is that it causes harm."
But wait a minute! What about men with high PSA readings who really do have cancer? Should they simply ignore the danger signs? Clearly, the PSA test correctly predicts cancer sometimes. Isn’t there any way to improve the accuracy? Yes, in fact, there is.
What to do. HSI recently advised its members to follow up abnormally high PSA readings with a little - known screening procedure called AMAS. This simple blood test detects a substance called antimalignin antibody. As explained in the latest report to HSI members, this AMAS blood test has an accuracy of 95%. Most importantly, AMAS levels tend to rise early in the disease, which means that cancer may be caught even when an initial biopsy might miss it.
If your doctor hasn’t yet heard about the AMAS test, HSI can provide full details in the report titled, "The Perfect Prostate Cure": Today’s Greatest Medicines for Men.
Prostate Disease, both cancerous and benign, is so prevalent among older men that doctors here regard it as nearly inevitable. But for a number of years now, Dr. Hoang has been curing both kinds quite reliably, using a traditional Vietnamese herb that’s all but unheard of here in the west. Dr. Hoang’s breakthrough has received nearly zero attention here.
But all this changed very recently, when Ken Malik, the co-founder and Executive Director of the Prostate Awareness Foundation was diagnosed with prostate cancer. He literally searched the world for a natural approach and found out about Dr. Hoang’s herbal treatment in January of 2002. He was hoping for any improvement, but imagine his shock and delight when his 2005 biopsy showed only three microscopic tumors. Ken was excited enough to organize an informal trial of the herb. After 3 months, the vast majority of cancer sufferers in this trial showed functional improvement. And this is just the tip of the iceberg.
In Vietnam, they have been meticulously recording outcomes. Doctors in one practice report they have biopsies confirming quite a few cases of advanced prostrate cancer—the "incurable" kind—were completely cured by this herbal treatment alone.
Equally fine results for BPH. The International Hospital researched it for 7 years as a treatment for benign prostrate swelling. Their urologists tracked the results very thoroughly, even measuring prostate size. They reported astonishing success for 92.6% of patients—more than 9 out of 10.
Intriguingly, the herb is so valued in Vietnam that it once was reserved for the royal family. Scientist are still puzzling about exactly how it works.
We will continue our quest for a cure and report to you our findings. Meanwhile, it requires a public that is engaged in asserting their rights to dictate to their doctors the procedures they will and will not undergo. Please don’t go blindly into the test, when you have questions as to the accuracy and the serious and needless suffering, bleeding and infections from the biopsies. Trust your instincts and don’t proceed with a healthcare system that is bent upon spending billions of dollars on tests that produce one certainty about PSA testing — that is that it causes harm!
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