Prostate Cancer

mamav

mamav

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Gentlemen,

Please get your yearly check-up. One of my friends and a very dear member of our Victims Assistance team is in surgery after just learning about his cancer last week.:grumpy: They didn't catch it early and don't know the extent yet. It's treatable and not life threatening if caught early.

So get your exam!! Just do it!! Do it for your family and friends. We all need all of you!! As long as the doc only has one hand on your back it's not that bad...............2 hands and welll..........you better have your khuk handy. ;)
 
I believe even if it's caught late, it's not nearly as deadly as other types of cancer, because it is usually not growing very fast - most of the time people die because of other stuff (age related, mostly) before prostate cancer kills them, so I have been told.

Still, not a good thing to have. Smoke for your friend. :(

Keno
 
Thanks for the warning, and smoke up from Atlanta.
 
You are absolutely right, get exams done they don't hurt really it doesn't. I also have regular colonoscopies, and as I age they have removed a couple of nasty looking polyps that can turn cancerous, like the ones that took my father ten years ago. Sending smoke, and peace from within.
 
A PSA test (blood test) should be standard for every man at his yearly physical. Of course the other test should be done as well.:eek: ;)

Steve
 
It has been a while since I have been on that friendly terms with my Doctor .
I see him monthly and maybe its time for him to see more of me than I would like .

My friend swears by his woman doctor for the simple reason their fingers are smaller . I just can,t think of it on such terms unless someone buys someone dinner first .
 
Yep. I get my annual reminder of why I could never be gay. :eek: :rolleyes: I still have a couple more years to go before they start getting serious about it.

My dad had prostate cancer. They caught it early, so it was no life-threatening deal. If I remember the stats correctly, between 1/4 and 1/3 of men will get it by their late 70's.
 
Usually, prostate cancers progress very slowly ... it's a truism that most men will die with prostate cancer, but not from it.

Still, I get an annual exam. None too pleasant (despite having a cute young thing as my MD), but it's still a whole lot less intrusive than my wife's pap smear ...
 
Dad died from colon cancer. He was always in excellent health- even after he was obviously ill, he still had a pulse in the low 50's.

Y'all, *please* get your checkups. I expected to have Dad for another 25 years. :( I'd hate to lose any of you before your time, friends.

John
 
My grammpa Died with Prostate cancer that progresses to his Bones and Liver. He died of Pnuemonia in Hospice. He had intructed my mother to turn off the feeding tube with his last vocal ability. He had battled cancer for nearly 45 years. Get checked.
 
My wife's father died because he was too stubborn to get a check up and did not tell anyone of changes in his bowel process. By the time they caught what could have been treatable, it was too late. He lived another 5 years though, and they may have been the best years of his life.

He enjoyed his daughter and sons. I think the youngest son, 17 or 18, got more understanding and patience from the Old Man than any of the others who had to fight their way through.
He lived long enough to see Carter born, but missed Trav and Keith.
Trav looks like him and I know he'd have gotten a kick out that headstrong little boy.


munk
 
Next week marks 5 years since my last radiation treatment for prostate cancer. They did not catch it early, and it was basically hip bone to hip bone....inoperable they said. Inoperable does not mean hopeless, but you need to consider which options are available and Go For It. Please get checked regularly, before it gets a headstart on you. They missed mine early from all the hoohaw over 5 heart bypasses (tunnel vision, I guess). Don't get caught napping!!!
 
Please don't let the notion that Prostate Cancer is a slow growing Cancer lull you into not having a simple blood test.

A manual prostate examination will tell you if your prostate in enlarged but NOT whether or not you have Cancer. An enlarged prostate is not unusual as you get older but Prostate Cancer is. A simple blood test for PSA will tell you how your prostate is doing. Get it checked, as with all cancers early detection is the key to cure.

There are a lot of very aggressive Prostate Cancers out there. My Prostate Cancer is aggressive, inoperable and in my case will be terminal.

GET YOURSELF CHECKED.
 
Definitely something to take very seriously. My uncle died much too early. He beat it the first time around, but it came back a year later.
 
Thanks, Gin. Smoke for AZ later.

An uncle died from it a short time ago. He refused surgery for a new type of chemo... Seems like not the best choice. :(



Mike
 
Ad Astra said:
Thanks, Gin. Smoke for AZ later.

An uncle died from it a short time ago. He refused surgery for a new type of chemo... Seems like not the best choice. :(



Mike
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It's his body and most definitely his choice...even if the choice is to do nothing. A couple of the "cutting edge" surgical techniques sounded like medieval torture to me , so I opted for the radiation....It was right for my personality and what I was prepared to let others do to me. I even suggested a anatomical impossibility to one doc who got real pushy... I guess he really wanted another guinea pig really bad, but I would never have attempted the horse puckey he was selling.
 
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