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A PSA test for prostate cancer Saved My Life

 

I was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 1997. I had been getting annual PSA test (prostate specific antigen).Although he had no symptoms, the PSA test came up positive. This is almost always the case when prostate cancer is detected in time to be curable. I successfully treated with surgery and radiation. Without PSA testing my cancer would almost certainly have gone to an advanced stage, beyond the hope of a cure.Before the PSA test was first used, men were more often coming to a doctor with symptoms, and therefore with advanced prostate cancer. The death rate from prostate cancer has decreased steadily since the advent of PSA testing.For example, one of the states of Austria introduced mass PSA screening, the reduction in mortality from prostate cancer by 40 percent.I truly believe that without the PSA test I probably would not be here sharing my call to all men over 50 years old to check with their doctors about getting an annual PSA test

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