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Ignoring Prostate Cancer Entirely

Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Mar 20 8:02pm | Replies (44)
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@northoftheborder

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.

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handera | @handera | Mar 16 10:02pm

Thanks for that reminder, it is not my intent to minimize the seriousness of the life and death treatment decisions facing men with metastatic stage 4 prostate cancer.

This is why I usually refrain from commenting on posts asking about various treatments options, in this forum.

I also comment in other forums that breakout low risk PCa/active surveillance separately and I sometimes forget that this forum has a large portion of stage 4 folks.

The two disease types are so different, as to the best way to approach their management, that it would probably be better if they were called by different names.

Anyway, I’m sorry if my post made you feel I was minimizing the seriousness of stage 4 PCa, that was not my intent.

I have noticed there seems to be few, in this particular forum, who comment positively about AS.

Maybe the Mayo moderators of this forum could consider a separate proactive low risk PCa/AS support group; especially since 60% of men initially diagnosed with PCa are now opting for this management style.

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