Prostate Cancer

[jeff2]

That whole British study brought into question Prostate cancer screening and said it was of no good. The few lives saved were balanced out with anxiety, psychological issues and unnecessarily aggressive treatment. I did a test at the urging of my fam doc as he said there is a window of high risk where its worth doing. (50-mid 60's). So I relented. PSA is all good thankfully. The MOVEMBER movement is really a huge SCAM IMHO. Its just making people anxious so they can take their money, have high paid jobs and parties and trickle a small amount of $$ out to research. If you reach a ripe old age, something is gonna be brewing. The average age of prostate cancer fatalities is 77 years old. Is it worth worrying about something that may kill you 2.9 years sooner then average life expectancy?

I might add that a WSJ article on saturday went back and forth on testing, talking about the over testing years and the under testing years. But it ended with "Only because we have so many additional tests we can do to decide if we need a biopsy, I think the math has really changed, said Dr. David Penson, secretary of the American Urological Association and prostate-cancer expert. I think a lot of men in 2025 are going to opt to have their PSA tested."

 

[Gators]

Family history is very important in PC. My grandfather had it, My uncle died at age of 67 of PC. My father had his prostate removed at age of 50 and he had recurrence at age of 80 and he died of natural caused. I have had since age 57. Now 10 years later I am at gleason 8. I am forever thankful to MD Anderson for prompt MRI and biopsy .