I heard a teaching doctor say that he had never done an autopsy on any man over 85 who did NOT have some form of prostate cancer.
This will probably be “watched”.
“I heard a teaching doctor say that he had never done an autopsy on any man over 85 who did NOT have some form of prostate cancer.”
I work in Life/Health insurance reading medical records. I’ve read the same thing too many times. If you are male and are lucky enough to hit an advanced age, you very likely have prostate cancer. It’s just that it grows so slow at that age, you’ll die of just about any other cause.
Yes, the approximate risk of having at least a microscopic focus of prostate CA mirrors a man’s decade of life. For example, a 60 year old man has around a 60% chance of having prostate cancer if you took out his prostate and did a thorough microscopic analysis. The prevalence of clinically detectable or symptomatic prostate CA is much lower, however.