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To: yankeedame

Prostatectomy doesn't "cure" prostate cancer any more than a mastectomy cures breast cancer. It's a systemic disease.


9 posted on 10/03/2004 11:28:42 AM PDT by Innisfree
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To: Innisfree
Prostatectomy doesn't "cure" prostate cancer any more than a mastectomy cures breast cancer. It's a systemic disease.

Not necessarily. It's not unusual these days with PSA testing to pick up prostate cancer before it has spread beyond the prostatic capsule. I wish I knew what Kerry's PSA is now as it should be undetectable if what he says is true.

19 posted on 10/03/2004 11:53:28 AM PDT by Randjuke
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To: Innisfree
Prostatectomy doesn't "cure" prostate cancer any more than a mastectomy cures breast cancer. It's a systemic disease.

I'm sorry...but that's just ignorant.

24 posted on 10/03/2004 12:07:34 PM PDT by paulat
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