[Hopespringpcsg] FW: Men don't need routine digital rectal exams at family doctor to screen for prostate cancer, review finds x2

[Glen Tolhurst]

Hi all:

Below are couple of comments on the subject & the link to the article.

Take care,

Glen

 

So this doc who entered medical school in 2006 and is now a family and academic (whatever the hell that means) physician decides to not use DRE as a screening tool for PCA.

It appears he sat in a library reviewing previous literature rather than doing any real research.

As noted below, 1st PSA now DRE are out of favour.

Time to make PSA testing as a screening for PCa a political item for the provincial election.

 

 

 

First it was PSA, now it’s DRE.

 

I guess we just wait till they have symptoms then watch them die. GPs really don’t want to do very much, do they?

 

Don't abandon digital rectal exam but don’t do it routinely for prostate cancer screening, family medicine review concludes.

 

http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/prostate-digital-rectal-exam-1.4570631

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