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06/03/2025

What's the Truth About Prostate Cancer?
Exposing the rotten underbelly of the prostate cancer narrative.

Bert Vorstman MD, Ron Piana What’s the Truth About Prostate Cancer? This article is a searing, well-constructed indictment of the current prostate cancer paradigm. It doesn't just critique individual elements like PSA screening or radical prostatectomy—it exposes a systemic failure rooted in pro...

05/31/2025

WHAT’S THE TRUTH ABOUT PROSTATE CANCER? Why does the business have prostate cancer continue to promote PSA testing and radical treatments when urologist’s own studies have shown that PSA testing and radical surgery failed to save significant numbers of lives?

Is the cure worse than the disease?

02/13/2024

INSURANCE-BASED HEALTHCARE PRICES ARE GREATER THAN CASH PAY COSTS
Since most consumers never meet their deductible visit HEALTHdrum for routine care.

When insurers negotiate high hospital prices, employers and beneficiaries bear the cost in the form of higher premiums.

01/28/2024

WHY PROSTATE CANCER TESTING AND TREATMENT IS A PUBLIC HEALTH DISASTER
How herd mentality created a false prostate cancer narrative.
When scare-tactics, false hope and false promises are exploited for financial gain.

(Editor’s note: Dr. Bert Vorstman, the “uro-heretic,” is well-known to the readers of TheActiveSurveillor.com. His controversial columns have been among the most read in this newsletter—often to the dismay of his critics. He’s teaming up with Ron Piana, co-author with Richard Ablin, PhD, o...

10/20/2023

06/19/2022

Robotic Prostatectomy Lacks Scientific Evidence for Safety and Benefits
https://howardwolinsky.substack.com/p/is-robotic-prostatectomy-bad-medicine?utm_source=email

05/11/2022

PROSTATE CANCER TESTING and TREATMENT LIES The prostate cancer arena is a gigantic well of falsehoods and misrepresentations that's led to harm for countless men. The testing is severely troubled with false-positives and errors of interpretation while treatments are risky and lack objective evidence for life extension.

(Editor’s note: Bert Vorstman, MD, has always had an outsider’s perspective. He was born to Dutch parents in Sumatra in the former Dutch East Indies. Think of Mel Gibson and the movie, “The Year of Living Dangerously.” At age four, his family left behind the unrest and moved to New Zealand. ...

05/05/2022

https://bvorstman.medium.com/5-challenges-to-conventional-wisdom-in-prostate-cancer-b4b67bf4bda

Patients with prostate cancer have a right to expect that their screening, diagnosis, and treatment are supported by evidence-based…

02/01/2022

https://healthdrum.com/blog/10-reasons-why-insurance-coverage-of-routine-healthcare-is-flawed/

Free market healthcare is the process that enables buyers (consumers) of healthcare services to connect directly with sellers (providers) for cash price care.

01/25/2022

HEALTHCARE IS AN INSURANCE INDUSTRY MONOPOLY - MONOPOLIES CREAT INJUSTICES - are you ok with your healthcare being controlled by a health plan?

Health insurance injustices suffered by patients, employers and physicians at the hands of the domineering health insurance industry.

01/21/2022

http://www.valpotorch.com/opinion/article_3a0e0272-7a67-11ec-b829-a35292b2e536.html

The big lie of the modern American healthcare industry is that what we call health insurance is actually insurance. This is false. Insurance is supposed to be a risk aggregation

01/15/2022

Does the P$A test do any good or is it just a roadmap to health hazards?

Physicians have promoted PSA testing, prostate cancer detection and prostate cancer treatment to be safe, effective and potentially life-saving. But is this prostate cancer narrative pushed by urologists supported by the clinical evidence?