Given the clear harms and the small and uncertain benefits, most men would presumably decide to decline PSA testing if they knew all the facts, but that’s up to each man to decide.
If you do get diagnosed with prostate cancer, what can you do with diet in addition to whichever other therapies you might choose? See:
• Prostate Cancer Survival: The A/V Ratio (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/prostate-cancer-survival-the-av-ratio/)
• Cancer Reversal Through Diet (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/cancer-reversal-through-diet/)
• Changing a Man’s Diet After a Prostate Cancer Diagnosis (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/changing-mans-diet-prostate-cancer-diagnosis/)
• Treating Advanced Prostate Cancer with Diet: Part 1 (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/treating-advanced-prostate-cancer-with-diet-part-1/)
• Treating Advanced Prostate Cancer with Diet: Part 2 (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/treating-advanced-prostate-cancer-with-diet-part-2/)
I detailed the issues with mammograms in my 14-video series, starting with 9 out of 10 Women Misinformed About Mammograms (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/9-out-of-10-women-misinformed-about-mammograms/) and ending with The Pros and Cons of Mammograms (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-pros-and-cons-of-mammograms/).
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