My brother-in-law was diagnosed with aggressive prostate cancer at the beginning of December. He lives in Canada. Surgery is scheduled for February.
That would be torture, when I knew the cancer was there, I wanted it cut out NOW. I’m not sure if it made a difference for long time survival but the feeling was kind of like knowing there was a communist sitting as president of the USA.
I would bet in most socialist countries,prostate surgery is performed way more often than radiation treatment.
When the final bills are in on 42 radiations and before and after care, it is close to $200,000.
Surgery is more in the vicinity of $30,000.
Not a hard decision for a "death panel" to make.-Tom