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Your Free Prostate Cancer Screening Is a Trap — Here Is the Truth
Better health outcomes often come from slowing down and asking a harder question: is this test actually serving me, or is it serving the system?
In this episode, Dr. Stephen Petteruti talks through the reality behind prostate cancer screening—what’s driving it, who’s funding it, and where the standard approach falls short. He explains how free PSA screenings are often backed by pharmaceutical companies, why the commonly used PSA cutoff of 4 is an arbitrary number that creates unnecessary fear, and how the medical system can capitalize on men’s anxiety around a cancer diagnosis. He walks…
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