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Replies to "Sorry to hear of the failed treatment but that seems somewhat common in PCa unfortunately. The..."
"PCa [is] a slow moving cancer ... most likely you will die with the disease and not from it"
You're right the majority of the time, but there are very aggressive types of prostate cancer as well. They tend to strike young (e.g. in your 50s), grow fast, and often metastasise before they're diagnosed. They affect Black people disproportionately, but also affect white people (like me, diagnosed at age 56 with stage 4b oligometastatic).
I'm not saying your advice isn't worth noting, but we also need to counter the stereotype that PCa is *always* a slow-moving, old person's disease, because it has resulted in reduced PSA screening for men in their 50s, and a corresponding increase in cancer that's already far advanced when it's detected.