The press is quoting a bevy of “cancer experts” pontificating on how it’s inconceivable that the former president Biden didn’t have a PSA test while he was president. They seem to think that the PSA test is an infallible guide to the diagnosis and subsequent successful treatment of prostate cancer.
The use of routine PSA screening is a complex one that they (“the experts”) ignore or think that the president of the USA should be subjected to a different standard of medicine from the rest of the country.
Here’s the recommendation of the US Preventive Services Task Force on PSA screening”
The entire opinion of the Task Force can be read here. My comment only applies to PSA screening. The likelihood that President Biden had the disease while in office is virtually 100%. People in high-status jobs often receive medical care that differs from that of the general public and which frequently can be to their disadvantage.
There’s no definitive evidence that PSA screening reduces mortality from very aggressive cases of prostate cancer. PSA screening is associated with secondary morbidity of its own. This is why the Task Force gives PSA screening in men over 70 a D grade – its lowest.
