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Have a friend working as urology surgeon - basically all men get prostate cancer, its just a function of time (unless you die young). Most of them is benign, or
by jajko 1y ago
Have a friend working as urology surgeon - basically all men get prostate cancer, its just a function of time (unless you die young). Most of them is benign, or cause few issues and are often let alone.
If you would run scans on all males above say 45 there would be endless stream of operations happening, all of which would lower quality of life for everybody, and sometimes shorten their lives a bit or a bit more. Any public healthcare system would be brought to the edge of collapse by just this since surgeries are supremely expensive everywhere, that's not just US invention.
- IAmBroom 1y agoYo, personal experience. I'll be undergoing a second test soon, as a precaution, but the first showed me at "acceptable risk level but cancer is still present". My urologist carefully assured me ahead of the test that I "do have cancer, as all men my age do", and clarified the difference between "have" and "might well die of".
- pas 1y agofor anyone else wondering: https://cdn.mdedge.com/files/s3fs-public/fedprac/images/fed03204041s_f1.png https://cdn.mdedge.com/files/s3fs-public/fedprac/images/fed0... ~0.7% at 49 years, 45.5% at 70 years, looks like a logarithmic growth curve