I just saw this link, I haven’t posted on FR in years.
For crying out loud. All men should get a PSA test after age 50. In some cases earlier. I was diagnosed at age 51 with a 5.6 PSA score. Routine bloodwork on my annual exam. Follow up with a urologist, five out of eight biopsy specimens were positive for cancer. I was floored! Subsequent follow up revealed that is was still incapsulated. I opted for the surgery. It was a nasty procedure in 1999. No radiation or chemo. I will be 74 next week. No regrets. Glad to be alive.
GET THE PSA
Good for you, I am on the other end. Not diagnosed until there were mets. Doing great with treatments though. It will be 5 years on March 1 2022.
A bolt out of the blue, as I was working everyday, but was required to dig a post hole in very hard ground. The next day I couldn’t lift my arm. Got xrays and VOILA, not shoulder cancer, but Prostate cancer.
Life doesn’t suck, but it is different and restrictive. What I wouldn’t give to have had yearly blood testing for PSA markers.