Despite medical advances, humans still face a 100% mortality rate.
Really, really good news for those of us who are rubber glove phobic.
Ask the men who have died from it how much they might have like to have had regular screenings...it kills as many as breast cancer does....
Oh come on! This has to be aimed at cutting health expenditures due to Obamacare.
My father (who’s since passed away) had “ignored” getting any sort of medical check-ups (he hated hospitals) and went to the doctor because he was “tired” and a “little under the weather”. The doctor told him he had prostate cancer—and it was so advanced that it had made it’s way into his lungs.
Get check-ups, if not every year at least every other year.
My anecdotal evidence is to the contrary. Everyone I know who had surgery is still healthy, without impotence or incontinence, while the three I knew whose docs said, “Let’s wait and see.” are dead, within two years of diagnosis..
I however am not as smart as these researchers with their big doctor brains, like I wasn’t as smart as the Enron boys or the Ivy-Leaguers who run the government.
“The test doesn’t save lives, on balance, and the treatments are usually worse than the disease.”
Can’t agree with this. Last year I was diagnosed and treated for prostate cancer. If you define saving lives by prolonging my life then I believe my life was saved. I selected proton radiation therapy to treat my tumor. Treated with success and with almost no downside to the treatment. The worse part of the treatment was loose stools.
My skin doctor told my father in law to get into his doctor fast. He said he had just been. Odd, his own doctors missed pancreatic cancer.
We need stories from men who have suffered the treatment. Then we can decide which is best for us personally.
We are born with cancer cells. If we maintain a strong immune system, our body can fight them. It helps to exercise and not fill your body with fat and sugar.