What is the average age of the gentlemen on here?

Hi @colleenyoung ,

First off - thank you for the wonderful job you do moderating this board.

Everything is going slowly at this point due to my urologist being hard to contact and hard to get my records from for second opinion. I was recommended to get a RALP due to my age from the 10-minute consult I did with him based on my results. I'm currently working to get a second consult from a few places (BAMF virtually and Mayo locally) as well as sending my biopsy slides to Johns Hopkins for review.

I am open to their suggestions and am prepping mentally and physically for a RALP. I'll follow-up when I know more.

hbp,
You proved them wrong. Wish you many years of quality life.

61. Two psa tests elevated. 8.1 and 7.8. MRI this Tuesday.

Diagnosed at 71 PSA 43 Gleasons 7-9 biopsy 12 cores all positive for PC. Really feel for the younger guys with this horrible disease. Treatments will destroy what you were before PC. Not negative here, but realistic and quality of life mostly gone. So many just give up as they are hammered with the SE's of treatment. Both mental and physical.

I was 52 when diagnosed with prostate cancer (Gleason Score 7, 3/4). I went with a radical prostatectomy at same summer 2022. After two years my PSA levelled 0.2. I started Orgovyx at September and EBRT 2 (x33) months after that. Now I Have stopped 6m Orgovyx. Im waiting to recover from ADT, I still have hot flashes and muscle joint. By the way: I live in Finland - and our health care system is awesome. My journey has paid me only about 1000euros. Including doctor visits, RAPL, 33xEBRT, 6months Orgovyx.
Now Im 55y.

"By the way: I live in Finland - and our health care system is awesome. My journey has [cost] me only about 1000euros."

I'm so glad to hear that! It's a blessing when you and your family don't have to face financial stress and/or constant insurance-company battles when you're already dealing with the cancer itself: that's just kicking a person when they're down. 😢

I am extremely grateful that after 10+ hours of emergency surgery in 2021 (at age 56), serious post-surgery complications involving numerous specialists, 3½ months in hospital and rehab, and two rounds of radiation, my biggest hospital costs were my spouse's monthly parking pass for visits and my snacks from the vending machine.

Cancer's never going to be easy, but at least the Ontario healthcare system didn't make it even harder for me (except for the bland hospital food — that gets grim after a couple of weeks, when you've already cycled through the full menu 2–3 times 🤢).

I was diagnosed at 47 with the novo metastastasic PC ((bones) 2022

Triplet therapy, doing very good life goes on !

I was diagnosed just before I turned 59 and I've just turned 90. Okay, okay, 60 really but the side effects make me feel 90 some days.

I am a British citizen and grew up with the NHS but I was very happy with my American, employer provided, health insurance and my treatment in Pennsylvania. Although technically I have a High Deductible plan the deductible is only $1600 (which I hit in February this year and last). From now till the end of the year my cost for everything, including medicines, will be minimal. Plus my company gave up on the small employee contributions a few years ago and they pay it all now. The HDP give me access to a Health Savings Account that I've maxed out in my healthy years and now contains a lot of money. My PC has only slowed the accumulation (I pay for many things out of pocket) and has not touched the capital.

I feel very lucky to live within a few minutes of a respected cancer center and my diagnosis and treatment have been comprehensive and rapid. My insurance wouldn't pay for Yonza so I get generic Zytiga and I can live with that. For everything else I have had no issues and no communication with them.

I feel bad for those with no insurance, with argumentative or expensive insurance, and for those with delays in their socialized medicine. All my family live in the UK and I hear their horror stories. It is perhaps the main reason why I do not want to retire there.

Hi, I was diagnosed at age 55 and had high dose rate brachytherapy that year. The radiation caused problems that necessitated a "salvage" prostatectomy last year when I was 73. This year at age 74 had an artificial urinary sphincter installed. I thought about delaying that surgery in order to have a penile prosthesis installed for impotence that the radiation had caused, because I heard that the penile prosthesis needed to be done before the AUS. But I went ahead with the AUS since the incontinence was the bigger concern.

I was diagnosed 6 weeks ago at age 78. PSA has been creeping up over the last several years and was 7.67 last fall. Had MRI which triggered a biopsy. Cancer cells in 2 out of 23 samples and mostly 3+3 and 4+3. My prostate is large (103 cc) and my urologist suggests that can lead to a higher PSA. On active surveillance for now with follow-up PSA in 6 months, MRI + biopsy in a year. If I were as young as many responding, there would be some alternative approach. Good wishes to all on this journey!