Sir you have a gift with a pen . Boy I needed the laugh you provided /. After hiking yesterday with the Dogs in the mountains around some Alpine lake for 12-15kms , got the dogs...lovely day at 17-18C . I decided to go to the aquatic centre and have a quick swim and Sauna before dinner . Well there she was a ' Karen sitting in the Sauna complete with that angry look and pursed lip and of course a crew cut like haircut ' . I say, " hello, I haven't seen you in a while Ive been out of country for most of the winter , I hope your doing great and your family too ! ' . She then points out a slight hernia I have near my Belly Button . I told her that was from Prostate Surgery 4 years ago . She then professes to know something about Prostate says, they don't recommend surgery anymore, they just the prostate cancer alone now because it's safer that way. Hardly any people died from prostate cancer, thats the MILD ONE ! " . I said, "You have been misinformed. The mortality rate for prostate cancer rivals if not exceeds breast cancer for men and women combined. The treatments although development are still very life-changing. Of course you probably already know this, but breast cancer gets around 98% more funding than prostate cancer even though Prostate cancer has a mortality rate very similar. Where do you get your information that Prostate Cancer Group Regina Saskatchewan. one as you put it, certainly Urologist dont agree with you?" . I didn't have to listen to 10 minutes of her explaining how wrong I was, and how all of my decades of research is nonsense and that should I just eat a balanced diet everything will go away. Truly unbelievable what marketing has done to prostate cancer. Every Canadian should know that the Canadian guideline, and the British Columbia guideline is that you don't get a PSA test your regardless of your age, unless you were showing "...overt and serious urological issues." . So your government is making your treatment plan and is dictating to your doctor what you can and cannot have for treatment, and testing. Imagine, do you have an opportunity to get early detection of prostate cancer through a simple and cheap PSA test yet the government is dictating to doctors you can't have it. There is something seriously wrong with the medical system. And it is a system that is not what it used to be. James on Vancouver Island .