Always interested to hear what factor ends up as having the biggest impact when facing a life changing decision.

45 years ago, when attempting to decide which of 9 job offers to accept, I devised a quantitative decision analysis method, by applying a numerical preference value to how each offer faired against a laundry list of personally perceived important attributes.

Of course, this type of analysis takes time; so as to determine the attribute laundry list and how important it really is regarding personal preference.

In my original case, I went with my “quantitative answer” and it shaped the rest of my career.

Even when an “answer” was determined by my method (I’ve used it at other times in my life) I still ended up doing a “gut check” to see if it “seemed to be right”.

As I’ve aged I’ve found (like you) that family has became the most impactful factor, regarding my life changing decisions.

Unlike you, no one in my family has ever had prostate cancer. In fact, just today I received the results of hereditary genetic testing from the PROMISE trial…indicating:

“We did not find anything significant for your
health in the genes we looked at.”

Therefore, my cancer is likely (but not necessarily) to be the result of my diet and/or chemicals I’ve been exposed to in the workplace, over the course of many decades.

Not that understanding how one gets PCa is that important (once your diagnosed ); but knowing it may have been a hereditary issue, or not, can be important information to convey to your family members.

Thanks again for your feedback.