I read an article about a decade ago where the author (a specialist) said that the test does more harm than good. I’m 58 and have not had a physical since I was in my 20’s and have no plans to get one. If something really bad happens, I die. Life is a mist.
Philippians 1:21
For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain.
...and it appears that specialist that I read in the last century was correct, or, at the very least, is now in good company.
So, when you get prostate pain and are not sure if it is prostatitis or what, and the doc has had his finger up your rear end and says “yep it’s swollen all right” and they give you a round of antibiotics and the thing’s still the size of a honeydue in 6 weeks and it feels like that too, what’s the next step? Biopsy?
I posted this article mostly because I was curious if it would get the same kind of violent reaction that their recommendations on mammograms recieved.
I suspected that few would care even though prostate cancer is about as prevalent in men as breast cancer is in women.
I get physicals, but most men die with prostate cancer, not from it.