Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel

It's important to start on time.

It's also important to end, uh, so that you don't do over testing.

I do a detailed analysis for the men about prostate cancer, PSA screening.

I'm not for it.

Um, the bottom line is, uh, in all the studies, uh,

The cancer screening test, PSA, may save one out of a thousand lives, but it also means you're a patient, you're constantly looking at the number and testing.

You may get procedures done, which all have

relatively high rate of side effects and complications as, you know, impotence, incontinence.

So overall, yes, you might not die of prostate cancer, but your longevity is about the same and it may or may not save one person out of a thousand.

That just doesn't seem like a really, it's up to you to decide, but it doesn't.

As I say in the book, this is my view.

Here's what the recommendations are from the various professional societies.

And you're right.

Most professional societies, United States Preventive Services Task Force, the American Society of Clinical Oncology, et cetera, they do recommend it.

And they certainly recommend talking about it with your doctor so you have the bottom line.

But what you say, Mark, is 100% true.

We're seeing this...

You might even say mini explosion of cancer among younger people, which no one has the definitive answer as to why it's happening.

But you're seeing colon cancer in people in their 30s and 40s.

And I had a very dear friend who died of colon cancer in her early 40s.