A pro/con debate over the PSA prostate cancer screening test at the ACP Observer:
Will more aggressive screening at an earlier age lead to detecting more tumors at an earlier, more treatable stage? Or would it simply lead to overdiagnosis of tumors that may never become life-threatening?
No surprise, but those in favor of a lower PSA threshold are urologists, while an internist speaks against it.
Of course, urologists wouldn’t financially benefit from the additional procedures resulting from a lower PSA threshold, would they? I’m sure that didn’t factor into their thinking.
