For the most part that is true, Ken. There are rare false positives due to
rare prostate neuroendocrine carcinomas that do not produce PSA. I've only
seen two in 25 years of practice. The medical bean counters don't like
screening PSA due to the quite common false positives which bring into play
a lot of followup testing (which is expensive) to determine the cause of
the PSA elevation. This can be caused by benign prostate enlargement,
prostate inflammation, too much sex (just kidding) and of course prostate
cancer.
Charlie
On Mon, Dec 5, 2016 at 11:32 AM, Ken Norton <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I thought that the PSA test would have false positives, but not false
> negatives. If the number is zilch, you are in good shape, but if it is
> launching fireworks, you should at least have a further check.
>
> But I could be wrong.
>
> AG
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