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Prostate cancer. Lots of nerve endings there. The procedure to remove it can lead you to be incontinent. Let's say you treat the cancer but get damaged by the p
by dukeofdoom 2y ago
Prostate cancer. Lots of nerve endings there. The procedure to remove it can lead you to be incontinent.
Let's say you treat the cancer but get damaged by the procedure and can't be as active. Your seditary life style leads to a blood clot and an early death
...in the end you may have lowered your life expectancy as prostate cancer is slow growing
- vharuck 2y agoProstate cancer also came to my mind first. Doctors generally stop screening for prostate cancer after a certain age (70 and older is the recommended cutoff from the US Preventative Services Task Force), because, if the cancer wasn't causing symptoms, it's unlikely to impact quality of life or cause death before something else. The USPSTF references a lot of meta-analyses dealing with screening outcomes. They make decisions by whether a specific screening practice decreases mortality rates. They explicitly don't even include the financial cost of a screening practice.
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