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For every man whose life is saved by treating his prostate cancer, there are 47 men who put themselves at risk of impotence and incontinence by undergoing treatment for a tumor that would not have killed them anyway. That is the medieval statistic presented by NBC's Robert Bazell in his report on a pair of National Cancer Institute studies published in The New England Journal of Medicine. The conclusion, comparing middle-aged men who took a PSA blood test for the cancer with those who skipped it, is that "men who got the PSA tests did not live any longer." ABC anchor Charles Gibson consulted in-house physician Timothy Johnson. Johnson recommended that men between the ages of 50 and 70 should go ahead and have the test anyway. "What we need, desperately need, is a test that will tell us how aggressive a cancer is."
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