All true, but also it's important to be careful making blanket statements about the mortality rate of prostate cancer. You lose the aggressive cases in the statistical noise of the mild, elderly-onset ones.

It's fortunate that stage 4 is more manageable now, but that's a very recent development, and it's still a rough ride. We have quite a few people here in the forum who were diagnosed with stage 4 prostate cancer in their 50s and even 40s. While we're becoming more hopeful, for us, our prostate cancer still eclipses all other mortality dangers by a long way.