My husband was asymptomatic at 50 and had stage 3 prostate cancer. The cancer just made it outside the prostate cancer and into the nerve bundle. It was aggressive! He would have died if he had waited much longer.
He’s been cancer free for over 4 years.
“Asymptomatic prostate cancer is very slow growing and usally the patient dies of something else before the cancer gets him. The PSA yields a very high percentage of false positives which can lead to needless, yes expensive, and sometimes very inconvenient treatments.”
All very true, but the PSA Test isn’t expensive (I’ve been told if I havd to pay for it myself it’s $200.). But I also have a relative who had his PSA go from 5 to 50 in a matter of a few months so all prostate cancers are not slow-growing. And for that matter, prostate biopsies are not conclusive. With his PSA at 50, he needed a 64 sample biopsy to find his malignancy.