@sundancerdb78
If you were being treated at Mayo Jacksonville you would not be hearing that over 75 you don't need to check PSA or prostate cancer. I think that is old school in my opinion back when life expectancy was much lower than now nor with the new and excellent treatments for prostate cancer.

I have been having my PSA check since I was in my late 50s. When I started going to Mayo Jacksonville in 2006 I began seeing a PCP. I was 58 and my PCPs were doing PSA test. At that time they were optional do you want to check it? Then several years later my PCP said to me one during one visit that their research was showing more and more diagnoses of prostate cancers stage 4. He said they correlated the sharp rise in stage 4 to the non urgent and recommended testing for PSA. They (Mayo Jacksonville) changed that to back to testing PSA as the norm especially the rising of numbers over time.

I was being tested every 3 months when I was 73 as had rising numbers. My PSA was still at normal levels but had risen every PSA test done. My PCP referred me to urolgist who did biopsies and I was diagnosed with prostate cancer at age 76. Mayo Jacksonville doctors do not mirror the doctors you are gettng your information and I am glad they don't.

The lifespan of men and women has gone way up and most of that comes from new testing and new treatment for diseases. The longer life span does have some down turn as you can see much more Alzshmier (spell) diagnosis as we are living much longer. That disease is associated with later years of life.