Psa tests

The UK Government advisors on mass PSA screening have just concluded that it is more beneficial to more people if there was no regular PSA testing. In fact, there will be no testing at all except in certain specific cases.

At the same time one of the doctors' professional bodies has also decided to abandon the DRE tests (which they describe as the 'finger up the bum' tests).

Although the reasons for this are to save, not only the large numbers of false positives,, but also a large number of people who are not really at risk, but who would be caught in the net and subjected to a lot of unnecessary invasive procedures.

So we now know what the medical profession think, but what do the public think?