He underwent radical treatment and his PSA numbers dropped below one and stayed there for about 7 years then climbed up over to over 10 and then started spiking. The doctors had told him when they saw his numbers drop to near zero that it would likely climb again but that he would most likely die of other causes. He was otherwise much healthier than they gave him credit for the Prostate in his last year and a half went back into his pelvic bone and he was on Chemo and a new drug Zytiga I think was the name about the last three months but it made him too sick to take it. In the last 2-3 months of his life it hit his brain. He died at age 83. Not so long ago many if not most men didn't live into their 80's and early to mid 70's was about the norm for non smokers. They likely had Prostate Cancer of some form and died from other unrelated issues.
I'd say if they made a study they would also link high testosterone levels to more probability and it would also make treatment more difficult as that is what Prostate cancer feeds on to grow. How much? Who knows.
Sadly, prostate cancer awareness is nowhere near the awareness and funding of breast cancer.
Men’s Health
Prostate Cancer
In the US, one in six men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer in their lifetime making it the most frequently diagnosed cancer in men after skin cancer. In 2013, over 238,000 new cases of the disease will be diagnosed and almost 30,000 men will die of prostate cancer in the US alone.
Despite these figures, the level of awareness, understanding and support for prostate cancer lags significantly behind that of women’s health causes.
A man is 35% more likely to be diagnosed with prostate cancer than a woman is to be diagnosed with breast cancer.
One new case of prostate cancer occurs every 2.2 minutes and a man dies from the disease every 17.5 minutes.
The incidence rates are double for African American men.
If detected and treated early, prostate cancer has a 97 percent success rate.
http://us.movember.com/mens-health/prostate-cancer
Why the prostate cancer test is useless
By Kyle Smith
March 1, 2014 | 11:15pm
“The Great Prostate Hoax: How Big Medicine Hijacked the PSA Test and Caused a Public Health Disaster” by Richard J. Ablin and Ronald Piana
Middle-aged men know the story: the PSA (prostate-specific antigen) test is an essential early-warning system for cancer. Elevated PSA levels mean cancer, which in turn means you should probably make the gutsy but necessary decision to prolong your life by having your prostate removed.
Except this story is rubbish. Says who? Says the pathologist who first observed the PSA, back in 1970.
Despite losing his own father, agonizingly, to prostate cancer at age 67, Richard J. Ablin (who is in his 70s) hasn’t had a PSA test done on himself, and doesn’t intend to. There is, he says, no reason to do so on a healthy man, he explains in his book “The Great Prostate Hoax.” Because PSA, contrary to what you’ve been told, doesn’t work as a cancer indicator.
That’s why a New England Journal of Medicine joint study of results from the US and Europe concluded, “PSA-based screening results in small or no reduction in prostate cancer-specific mortality.” Two years later the US Preventive Services Task Force declared that healthy men should not have a routine PSA test.
Look at it this way: If you had a PSA test in 2009, and it led to a biopsy, a cancer diagnosis and treatment for that cancer, there is, according to Dr. Peter Bach, a health-care policy specialist at Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, a 1 in 50 chance that by 2019 or later, you will have been saved from dying of prostate cancer. But there is a 49 in 50 chance that you will have been treated unnecessarily.
Read at: http://nypost.com/2014/03/01/why-the-prostate-cancer-test-is-useless/