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Is a PSMA PET SCAN the next step

Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Aug 16 10:41am | Replies (26)
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Hello heavyphil, thanks for your input and I sure hope you are doing well and feeling good. You are right on target about the BCBS Advantage plan. When I had Bladder cancer (5 year battle started 2008) I had Medicare and a Medicare Supplement Plan. Never had an issue with any procedure, surgery or chemo. I think the cost exceeded $300,000. I was cancer free for 11 years until prostate cancer arrived in May. I just read that anyone having bladder cancer has a 70% chance of getting prostate cancer. Oh, I also read that if your life expectancy is less than 10 years they basically don’t want to pay for treatment. I’ll be 79 this month but I’m no where near ready call it quits. Thanks again, Ken

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heavyphil | @heavyphil | Aug 15 4:36am

Hey Ken, The damned actuaries just crunch numbers and could care less about human morality - just MORTALITY!
I had to use an actuary to set up a pension plan. He was an odd one for sure. When I retired we spoke about the $$ in the plan, how it would be disbursed, etc.
So he says to me, “You are good, my friend, no worries. You’re gonna be fine to at least 85”. So then I said “Really - you do remember that I had bladder and prostate cancer, right?”
Without skipping a beat he said, “OK, so 75 then”…..just a cold blooded man😂😂

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