{"id":90797,"date":"2025-05-20T21:10:36","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T02:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/?p=90797"},"modified":"2025-05-20T21:10:36","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T02:10:36","slug":"nyt-does-not-terrible-job-of-explaining-why-experts-dont-like-early-psa-screening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/?p=90797","title":{"rendered":"NYT does not terrible job of explaining why experts don&#8217;t like early PSA screening."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/05\/20\/health\/joe-biden-prostate-cancer-diagnosis-screening.html\">https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/05\/20\/health\/joe-biden-prostate-cancer-diagnosis-screening.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Basically it&#8217;s a lousy test. High false positive, high false negative, and in 80+ the goal isn&#8217;t 20y survival.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230; about half of men have some cancer in their prostate by their 70s or 80s, although most have no symptoms.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If you find a PSA you have to pay attention to it &#8211; even if you don&#8217;t want to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/05\/20\/health\/joe-biden-prostate-cancer-diagnosis-screening.html Basically it&#8217;s a lousy test. High false positive, high false negative, and in 80+ the goal isn&#8217;t 20y survival. &#8220;&#8230; about half of men have some cancer in their prostate by their 70s or 80s, although most have no &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/?p=90797\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[28,40],"class_list":["post-90797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-share","tag-ifttt","tag-pinboard-jgordon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90797"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90798,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90797\/revisions\/90798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}