Posted on 03/23/2025 4:23:46 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Researchers are warning that men who regularly dodge prostate cancer screening appointments are 45% more likely to die from the disease.
Prostate cancer is the most common cancer among men and the second-leading cause of cancer deaths, according to UC San Francisco (UCSF). But if screening programs are introduced on a national scale — particularly those that measure levels of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) in the blood — they could give men earlier access to treatment, experts say.
They would thus have a better chance of being cured, according to reporting by news agency SWNS and others.
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If that’s true, then I should go three or four lifetimes without prostate cancer.
Every man, if they get old enough, will get prostate cancer.
No exceptions.
But dying from it isn’t mandatory. Get screened.
“I apologize in advance for the crudeness, but a former medic in Vietnam, who was studying medicine, told me if a man took a good, healthy shit every day, he probably wouldn’t get prostate cancer.”
He needed to study medicine a LOT harder.
Insurance companies and socialized medicine providers discouraged PSA screening on the pretense that it resulted in “over treatment”, as though that was a mandatory outcome. More stage 4 metastatic prostate cancer on initial diagnosis was the outcome. It was about SAVING MONEY, not concern about over treatment. A competent doctor and an informed patient almost always solves the “over treatment” dilemma.
Beau just had his PSA blood test done. Clean as a whistle. He is 65 and is starting to lose (older) hunting buddies at an alarming rate to various ‘old age maladies,’ so suddenly his general health seems to be of more importance. ;)
Prayers Answered! :)
P.S. As an ADDED BONUS, the more s-e-x you have in the course of your ADULT lifetime, the lower your risk (close to 40%!) of prostate cancer. Use it or lose it, Boys!
I've had precisely ONE prostate exam in my life. My PSA was 19.4.
I'll never have another prostate exam again.
“Use it or lose it, Boys!”
What do you think this is, a dating site? Sheesh! /sarc 😀
Yes but also seems to grow and spread faster if a younger man gets it than it does in older men. So important to get tested regularly.
That and hairy palms.
I’m doomed.
“What do you think this is, a dating site? Sheesh! /sarc 😀”
Just concerned for the health and well-being of my FReeper FRiends. ;)
The only ‘boy-fren’ I have here is Laz - and all he demands of me are SAMMICHES! ;)
I guess so! I was thinking of something like promiscuity, drugs, etc.
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