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1) The great prostate hoax: how big medicine hijacked the PSA test and caused a public health disaster
Author
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Richard J. Ablin exposes how a discovery he made in 1970, the prostate-specific antigen, was co-opted by the pharmaceutical industry into a multi-billion-dollar business. He shows how his discovery of PSA was never meant to be used for screening prostate cancer and yet nonetheless the test was patented and eventually approved by the FDA in 1994.
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