The article presents an overview of prostate biopsy, reports on an increasing rate of infection which is being seen in men who have undergone prostate biopsies and discusses research which has investigated the infection rate. A dis...
This data is erroneously causing some scientists to recommend that men with even lower resulting scores have biopsies! That is disgusting! That, of course, would have even more men without prostate cancer enduring a risky unnecessary prostate biopsy "just to be sure". And worst of all,these bi...
Overdiagnosis, he says, “is a problem for a lot of different cancers; for prostate, melanoma, breast cancer, thyroid. And if AI systems become better and better at finding smaller and smaller lesions you will manufacture a lot of pseudo-patients who have a ‘disease’ that won’t ac...