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Re: Terry's response on ProstaVysion - a genetic test for determining PC aggressiveness
Alan,
No one who has been diagnosed with PCa and who has started trying to gain an understanding of the disease can fail to understand very quickly that the uncertainties of life are carried over into the prostate cancer world. As a recent article - see link below says succinctly with regar to hindsight:
.... there is no way in this life to know what might have been — not in politics, baseball, romance or the stock market, and certainly not in sickness and health.
What concerns me is when claims are made in this welter of uncertainty which are not backed up by good research and review. So when Bostwick say, in part:
....ProstaVysion is able to provide .... the patient’s .....long-term prognosis.
I say
Show me the long term studies that demonstrate the accuracy of this claim
It may well be that Bostwock are far ahead of the game and do have demonstrable proof to back up their claims, but the studies to which they refer do not seem to do this.
So all I was saying in response to your enthusiastic post was
Be aware that this may be yet another commercial for something that doesn't work that well. - Like PSA tests, like Gleason Grading, like PCa3 tests, for all of which startling claims have been made in the past.
I mentioned an interesting newspaper article above. It is in the New York Times and it concerns Steve Jobs' decision not to have immediate surgery, the decision you and i made on our diagnoses. It is here and worth reading I think A Tumor Is No Clearer in Hindsight
