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    Doctor Phibes
    wrote on 17 Jun 2020, 02:00 last edited by Doctor Phibes
    #24

    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)

    I was only joking

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      Rainman
      wrote on 17 Jun 2020, 02:17 last edited by
      #25

      @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 πŸ€› BOOM! -- Then a RIGHT!!!! πŸ‘Š
      😳

      Hope Renauda is back for good, or for a good long while!
      (you old softspoken softie, you...)

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        16 Jun 2020, 20:12

        @Jolly said in More prostate cancer:

        I am extremely glad the rumors of your death are quite unfounded.😊

        Indeed.

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        taiwan_girl
        wrote on 17 Jun 2020, 22:39 last edited by
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        @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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          Larry
          wrote on 18 Jun 2020, 01:21 last edited by Larry
          #27

          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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          • L Larry
            18 Jun 2020, 01:21

            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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            Rainman
            wrote on 18 Jun 2020, 01:24 last edited by
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            @Larry said in More prostate cancer:

            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 gut! It is so good to hear from you again!!

            ?

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              Horace
              wrote on 18 Jun 2020, 01:30 last edited by
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              Hello gut indeed.

              Education is extremely important.

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                Rainman
                wrote on 18 Jun 2020, 01:44 last edited by
                #30

                I think he meant it.

                Must be writing a new song.

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                  Friday
                  wrote on 18 Jun 2020, 09:31 last edited by
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                  It really is nice to hear from you again Ren. Hope your recovery continues to go well.

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                    jon-nyc
                    wrote on 20 Jun 2020, 09:23 last edited by jon-nyc
                    #32

                    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.

                    Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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                      Klaus
                      wrote on 20 Jun 2020, 10:51 last edited by
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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.

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                        Renauda
                        wrote on 20 Jun 2020, 14:55 last edited by
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                        I do not see how a simple blood test can make matters worse, but what you just wrote, Klaus, seems as good an excuse as I have ever heard not to get a routine PSA test.

                        Elbows up!

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                          Mik
                          wrote on 20 Jun 2020, 15:19 last edited by Mik
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                          Besides that, it is statistical, which does not help me as an individual at all. I care about MY prostate not a sampling of people. I'll keep getting the blood test annually.

                          "The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell." Simone Weil

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                            Renauda
                            wrote on 20 Jun 2020, 16:39 last edited by
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                            That's more or less how I have approached this question the past nine years. Strangely enough, I don't regret doing so either.

                            Elbows up!

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