More prostate cancer
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Sorry to hear you're going through this, but very glad they caught it, Renauda.
There's really no excuse not to have the screening. Admittedly, I put off the colonoscopy for a couple of years when I turned 50, but that was mostly due to me dreading the process. As it happens, it was a good job I got it done, for peace of mind and polyp removal if nothing else.
(In case you don't know - the poster formerly known as D'Oh)
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@Renauda said in More prostate cancer:
Sadly, that was spewed from the mouth of an individual who in real life is perhaps the most unproductive workaholic narcissist and micro-managing nano bourgeois shopkeeper I have ever in encountered in a workplace in 45 years.
It's a LEFT
BOOM! -- Then a RIGHT!!!! 
Hope Renauda is back for good, or for a good long while!
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@Jolly said in More prostate cancer:
I am extremely glad the rumors of your death are quite unfounded.
Indeed.
@George-K said in More prostate cancer:
@Jolly said in More prostate cancer:
I am extremely glad the rumors of your death are quite unfounded.
Indeed.
+1
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I have avoided opening this thread because with my own recent medical issues i dreaded the discussion. Now i see Renauda is posting in it! Hello guy! It is so good to hear from you again!!
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Thanks for the PSA PSA.
I’ve never had one and get this - I already get monthly blood draws and my dad died of prostate cancer.
And the idea of getting a bad diagnosis isn’t scary anymore. I was long since dragged out of the fantasy that I was somehow bulletproof.
So yeah, not a lot of excuses. I’ll get it added to my regimen.
Geed to see you here and glad you’re doing well.
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While PSA tests may of course save lives in individual cases, that is not an argument that they should be performed in general because it ignores the cases where the PSA test may have made the situation worse.
This is how Wikipedia summarizes the state of the art.
A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2009 found that over a 7 to 10-year period, "screening did not reduce the death rate in men 55 and over."[50] Former screening proponents, including some from Stanford University, have come out against routine testing. In February 2010, the American Cancer Society urged "more caution in using the test." And the American College of Preventive Medicine concluded that "there was insufficient evidence to recommend routine screening."
PSA tests result in huge amounts of money being shifted. Whenever that much money is involved, one has to be very careful about whom to trust.
