Today, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) posted its prostate cancer screening final recommendation statement. The following letter was received by anyone who posted a public comment: The USPSTF is committed to making the recommendations process clear and transparent and we are able to achieve that by keeping the public fully informed throughout the [...]
The Prostate Cancer Roundtable is a formal organization consisting of some of the largest prostate cancer advocacy and support organizations. The goal of the organization is to try and coordinate both the actions and the messages of these independent organizations, or as some of us have described to try and play nice with each other [...]
Is it a subtle form of healthcare rationing with the goal of saving money at the expense of lives? Maybe that is what is going on. Older men are not economically as valuable to society as other individuals, in many people’s eyes they are actually a burden. Can a solution to the problem be to [...]
The web site for comments about the PSA test to the United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) is finally back in service and ready for your comments. Last night their site collapsed (I am hoping as a result of the overwhelming number of comments). The site is back up and taking comments. Make sure [...]
It is important that we all add comments to the “Opportunity for Public Comment – Screening for Prostate Cancer: USPSTF Recommendation Statement DRAFT at the following URL https://web.archive.org/web/20111210163948/http://www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org:80/uspstf%5Fform3/ I chose to make the following comments: […]
Remember back to when your children were young and you would sit at a table with them and help put together a puzzle. Depending upon the puzzle’s size and complexity, it could take hours of hard work; however, the time was well spent because you could bond on a common task with your children. When [...]
