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Biden will be here soon: Former President metastatic prostate cancer
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I had a full physical in late 2020, PSA was 2.0 and otherwise very healthy. 16 months later, around July 2022 I was diagnosed with denovo high volume metastatic prostate cancer - bone only. I feared prostate cancer because a friend at church became metastatic at 53 and he urged me to get my prostate checked. At that point I got my PSA checked about every year.
The idea that it takes 10 years for this cancer to grow and become metastatic is just not true for every male. Something in my body caused what seemed to be a cytokine storm that advanced the cancer. The only events in my life that occurred prior were 3 COVID shots, which made me very sick and catching COVID. My prostate cancer symptoms came 3 days after I had COVID.
My understanding is that Biden has recently admitted to not having a PSA check since 2014. Plenty of time for cancer to grow.
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At my annual physical in Feb 2022 my PSA was 1.9. doc said I was fine. From 2016 to 2022 my PSA was around 1.4, doc was not concerned about it increasing to 1.9. I skipped my annual physical in 2023, thinking I was just fine and why bother. My doc retired and the new doc at my clinic suggested I come in for my physical, this was Feb 2024, I put it off until July 2024, blood work done, doc recommended PSA even with be being 71 at the time. My PSA came back at 62. Doc sent me to urologist the next day, during a DRE found a large mass at the rear/top of my prostate. Biopsy the next week, Gleason 9 cancer, He put me on dual ADT right after the biopsy results came back. PSMA scan 2 weeks later, Mets to one lymph node and pelvis. My current PSA is less than 0.10 and recent MRI indicates my tumor has regressed back into the prostate. Scheduled for radiation soon to kill off the remaining cancer. I was lucky my new doc did the PSA test when he did, or most likely I wouldn’t be telling this story. So, maybe I had the cancer earlier, but it progressed very quickly.