If he’s been diagnosed early, he should make out fine... Lot’s of people now survive Prostate cancers... If they catch them early.
Get a colonoscopy and do your PSA counts regularly.
Sorry to hear this and I wish him luck. I hope to join him in ringing that bell myself sometime soon.
You go, Wade! I have an ex-BIL, who we still include as family member, who is 3 years out from his stage 4 diagnosis.
Related to Hale Boggs.
I believe he spent most of his career on the Red Sox as the third baseman, so it’s weird that they just mentioned him on the Yankees
Prayers up for Wade Boggs.
Been there and fought that crap. 2018. So far so good, good luck Mr Boggs. Survival rate if caught early is pretty good. Hope he gets better.
prolly shouldn’t have got that shot...
and yes, we’ll see many many more of these types of things in the coming 5 yrs
If it was caught before it has metastasized, it’s pretty much 100% curable.
If he has a great surgeon, he won’t have any more than 3-4 months of urinary and ED issues. After that, those issues won’t be a problem.
He will also likely need a penis pump to get the blood flowing for a while.
I was diagnosed with metastatic prostate cancer with 8 bone mets 10 years ago this month. Was told by one oncologist I’d have 3-5 years. My current oncologist has told me for the last 3 years my cancer will most likely never progress because I have responded so well to just one androgen deprivation therapy medication.
Best wishes to Biggs for a quick and complete recovery.
If you are (biologically) male and you live long enough, this will be you.
I had a prostate biopsy a few years back. In hindsight, it was the worst thing I could do, especially since my scans showed no evidence of anything but BPH. Things down there have never worked right since. And I have a concern about piercing the capsule of any organ and what the downstream (NPI) consequences would be.
I rang that bell - he can too...