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<blockquote data-quote="Grateful" data-source="post: 1614646" data-attributes="member: 438800"><p>Ditto.</p><p></p><p>That applies to other stuff too. Cancer screening is one such area. It has been abundantly proved that it increases survival time between diagnosis and death. But in many cases that is entirely because the cancer has been detected earlier. In those cases people die at pretty much the same age that they would have, even if the cancer had been found later.</p><p></p><p>Of course it varies quite a lot, depending on the type of cancer. But as a man, I have pretty much decided that (now that I am in my 60s) prostate screening is not for me. It is hard to get them to stop running PSAs, but if they came back and said yours is elevated, I hope I would have the guts to refuse the biopsy. I have heard so much about how it ruins many men's quality of life (and personally known some cases) and how relatively rare the aggressive form of the disease is.</p><p></p><p>It is age-dependent. If it happened to me in my 20s or 30s that would be a different matter. But if they found prostate cancer at my age, there is an overwhelming chance that something else will kill me before prostate cancer does. Or, that the cancer would kill me, but in ripe old age. (It killed two of my close relatives, but they were both in their mid-90s).</p><p></p><p>Of course there are likely some men on this forum whose life was saved by early detection of prostate cancer and the subsequent surgery.</p><p></p><p>Sorry, off-topic but actually a similar issue.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Grateful, post: 1614646, member: 438800"] Ditto. That applies to other stuff too. Cancer screening is one such area. It has been abundantly proved that it increases survival time between diagnosis and death. But in many cases that is entirely because the cancer has been detected earlier. In those cases people die at pretty much the same age that they would have, even if the cancer had been found later. Of course it varies quite a lot, depending on the type of cancer. But as a man, I have pretty much decided that (now that I am in my 60s) prostate screening is not for me. It is hard to get them to stop running PSAs, but if they came back and said yours is elevated, I hope I would have the guts to refuse the biopsy. I have heard so much about how it ruins many men's quality of life (and personally known some cases) and how relatively rare the aggressive form of the disease is. It is age-dependent. If it happened to me in my 20s or 30s that would be a different matter. But if they found prostate cancer at my age, there is an overwhelming chance that something else will kill me before prostate cancer does. Or, that the cancer would kill me, but in ripe old age. (It killed two of my close relatives, but they were both in their mid-90s). Of course there are likely some men on this forum whose life was saved by early detection of prostate cancer and the subsequent surgery. Sorry, off-topic but actually a similar issue. [/QUOTE]
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