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Likely to be fatal. how to detect and stop that? dr. davis is with us now to find out more. great to see you. why should men know and those who most men know about prostate cancer, detecting and treating it. >> everyone is questioning whether they should go for screening or not. a few years ago there were some studies that confused everyone that maybe this test is not as good as we thought it is. this week we had a big study that came out of internal medicine thing that finally psa can reduce th...

When to get the test. even the government chimes in. when should men start worrying about this? >> our organization advocates men over the age of 40 should check with their doctor. i was 47 when i was shockingly diagnosed with prostate cancer. we recommend them getting a psa test and a digital exam. >> doctor, does that agree with you as well? >> yes. in the u.s. we adopted psa screening with little evidence of benefit and didnt talk about the harms. in europe they did a much better job. the tar...

Known as a psa test, a blood test. a high psa test leads to a biopsy to check for cancer or surgery and radiation therapy. about a year and a half ago said the psa test does more harm than good. think about that. that more men are hurt by complications from treatment than are helped from finding cancer early. that left a lot of us wondering, what now? mark is no stranger to a biopsy. he had three over the past 12 years as his psa level has gone up and up. but each painful procedure comes back wi...

>> vinces symptoms were very severe problems with urination, including pain when he was urinating, as well as pain within the bones of his pelvis, which he had attributed to just normal activity. >> sure, because when youre 44 years old or if youre in your 30s or 50s, you have pain, you just figure, well, maybe i worked out a little too much. and, in fact, that perhaps is what was going on with him. this backs up the suggestion that prostate cancer is not just an old mans disease. i read a story...

America other than of course our own congress, men in congress and their staff because, of course, theyve been exempted from some of the pain of the obamacare law. but older gentlemen who are on medicare, this bill takes a half a trillion dollars out of medicare to put individuals on medicaid. so they are subsidizing the medicaid. how this specifically affects men in that age group is through the rationing and the dictates that are going to come from the central planners who have already said th...

And invasive treatments that they really dont need. now, new tests are showing promise in reducing the number of these false alarms. talk about it with dr. david samati, chief of the robotics division at mt. sinai school of medicine and fox news medical a-teamer and in treatment of prostate cancer. psa test as you always has been the standard but the problem is gives a lot of false-positives is is that true. >> that stands for prostate specific antigen. many things such as enlarged prostate, inf...

Its treated with things like an gee plasties and stents and bypass surgery. what does the evidence really show? unless youre in the middle of having a heart attack, which 95% of people who get them are not, they dont prolong your life, they dont even prevent heart attacks. we have a model that works simply by making changes in diet and lifestyles. >> now to a new study that shows diet may be a key tool in the fight against cancer. the study was conducted by dr. dean ornish, who looked at patient...

And lifestyles. >> now to a new study that shows diet may be a key tool in the fight against cancer. the study was conducted by dr. dean ornish, who looked at patients with early stage prostate cancer. >> more than half of men over the age of 50 get a psa test every year to try to detect prostate cancer early. it turns out lots and lots of men who had a cancer that didnt need to be treated, but they got treated anyway and it was causing a lot of harm. >> theres very little evidence that these co...

Than anything combined. unless youre in the middle of having a heart attack, which 95% of people who get them are not, they dont prolong your life, they dont even prevent heart attacks. we have a model that works simply by making changes in diet and lifestyles. >> now to a new study that shows diet may be a key tool in the fight against cancer. the study was conducted by dr. dean ornish, who looked at patients with early stage prostate cancer. >> more than half of men over the age of 50 get a ps...

>> now to a new study that shows diet may be a key tool in the fight against cancer. the study was conducted by dr. dean ornish, who looked at patients with early stage prostate cancer. >> more than half of men over the age of 50 get a psa test every year to try to detect prostate cancer early. it turns out lots and lots of men who had a cancer that didnt need to be treated, but they got treated anyway and it was causing a lot of harm. >> theres very little evidence that these conventional treat...