The great prostate hoax : how big medicine hijacked the PSA test and caused a public health disaster
(2014)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
362.196994/ABLIN,R
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, a division of St. Martin's Press LLC, c2014
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
x, 262 pages ; 25 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781137278746 (alk. paper), 1137278749 (alk. paper), 9781137278746
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
The jungle -- A decision I thought I could live with -- What the bleep just happened? -- The color of money -- Unintended consequences -- The hidden truth -- It's 112 degrees in Tucson
Reveals how fear-based and inaccurate testing is resulting in unnecessary high-risk surgeries, arguing that the PSA test was never intended for prostate cancer screening