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Ignoring Prostate Cancer Entirely
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Here’s the link:
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2214122
Spot on regarding the (1999-2009) ProtecT study group timeframe.
The Canary Pass study group timeframe (2008 - 2022), and their results mentioned earlier, are more representative of current day AS protocols.
I did find an interesting stat in the ProtecT study…45 patients (2.7%) died of PCa after 15 years; whereas 356 patients (21.7%) died of all causes after 15 years.
Not to minimize PCa, but we can tend (myself included) to focus on the trees rather than the forest.
I did a deep dive on that very subject, using a MSKCC nomograph regarding PCa male life expectancy…the results were stunning…but that’s a subject for a different post.
All the best,
Alan
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The risk is mixing up two types of prostate cancer — the slow-moving type, that tends to hit older people (who are likely to die of something else before the prostate cancer spreads), and the very aggressive type, that tends to hit younger people, and until recently, killed quickly.