Legitimately I wish there was a nationalised system for scheduling stuff like this automatically when you are at risk optionally. Like even give people the day off for tests like that as part of the scheme if they avail of it. Blood tests are so cheap.
TIL it can be detected through a blood test…
Guess I am going in
Also get a PDF of your blood results, no harm in double checking them to see where you are borderline.
My 67 year old father got diagnosed after a routine blood test for his diabetes. They have caught it in its earliest stages.
He admitted if he didn’t have to get blood tests for the diabetes he’d probably never have got diagnosed.
Also, if you’re in your 50s, get a colonoscopy done.
> Tells all men to get a blood test.
Get advice from your doctor not from a late night radio show host.
Counterintuitive as it may seem “just get tested” is not a clear cut recommendation.
Up until recently the US recommendation was *not* to screen. I think that’s since changed to “talk to your doctor about the pros/cons of screening”
For the last 5 years I’ve been experiencing hot flushes in my face and mushy stool/diarrehoa. I’m early 30’s
I’ve had every test done (CT, colonoscopy, blood, urine, etc,..). The hot flushes are generally after I eat but an allergy test came back negative.
Doctors cannot figure out what’s going on with me. Sometimes tests can’t show everything.
There is evidence that population-based routine screening using blood test for prostate cancer diagnosis is overall not beneficial
There are too many false positive and false negatives
There’s a lot of comments here which miss the mark a bit. The psa test isn’t a confirmation of prostate cancer. Many people have a high psa level and live absolutely fine lives. Also a digital rectal exam is a necessary evil along with the blood test, it provides great info to help able to get a hands on feel of the prostate to look for any abnormalities. The problem with offering this screening to everyone means that there will be lots of people going through unnecessary tests and surgeries that will lower their quality of life without any real benefit. Prostate cancer is very common, and lots of people who die have prostate cancer, but it’s usually an incidental finding. If you’ve problems peeing or peeing a lot at night it’s worth getting a blood test but it wouldn’t really work as a screening tool.
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Legitimately I wish there was a nationalised system for scheduling stuff like this automatically when you are at risk optionally. Like even give people the day off for tests like that as part of the scheme if they avail of it. Blood tests are so cheap.
TIL it can be detected through a blood test…
Guess I am going in
Also get a PDF of your blood results, no harm in double checking them to see where you are borderline.
My 67 year old father got diagnosed after a routine blood test for his diabetes. They have caught it in its earliest stages.
He admitted if he didn’t have to get blood tests for the diabetes he’d probably never have got diagnosed.
Also, if you’re in your 50s, get a colonoscopy done.
> Tells all men to get a blood test.
Get advice from your doctor not from a late night radio show host.
Counterintuitive as it may seem “just get tested” is not a clear cut recommendation.
Up until recently the US recommendation was *not* to screen. I think that’s since changed to “talk to your doctor about the pros/cons of screening”
More detail
[https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/to-psa-test-or-not-to-psa-test-that-is-the-discussion-2017051111711](https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/to-psa-test-or-not-to-psa-test-that-is-the-discussion-2017051111711)
[https://mariekeating.ie/cancer-information/prostate-cancer/screening-for-prostate-cancer/](https://mariekeating.ie/cancer-information/prostate-cancer/screening-for-prostate-cancer/)
[](https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/to-psa-test-or-not-to-psa-test-that-is-the-discussion-2017051111711)
For the last 5 years I’ve been experiencing hot flushes in my face and mushy stool/diarrehoa. I’m early 30’s
I’ve had every test done (CT, colonoscopy, blood, urine, etc,..). The hot flushes are generally after I eat but an allergy test came back negative.
Doctors cannot figure out what’s going on with me. Sometimes tests can’t show everything.
There is evidence that population-based routine screening using blood test for prostate cancer diagnosis is overall not beneficial
There are too many false positive and false negatives
There’s a lot of comments here which miss the mark a bit. The psa test isn’t a confirmation of prostate cancer. Many people have a high psa level and live absolutely fine lives. Also a digital rectal exam is a necessary evil along with the blood test, it provides great info to help able to get a hands on feel of the prostate to look for any abnormalities. The problem with offering this screening to everyone means that there will be lots of people going through unnecessary tests and surgeries that will lower their quality of life without any real benefit. Prostate cancer is very common, and lots of people who die have prostate cancer, but it’s usually an incidental finding. If you’ve problems peeing or peeing a lot at night it’s worth getting a blood test but it wouldn’t really work as a screening tool.
Jeremy immediately disagrees