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DREs and PSA screening are not standard recommended treatments above the age of 70 or 75 (depending on where you live). Should they be? In many cases, I think yes. But really, this isn't the place for political conspiracy theories. We're all dealing with prostate cancer, either as patients or as caregivers, and that's what we're here to talk about.

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The standard of not checking your PSA after 70 or 75 is not political. It is just plain wrong. It is not just a standard of checking after 70-75. It is also not checking in your 30's and 40's. I ask my son who is now 34 to get checked every year. I remember going to my doctor and him telling me that PSA blood tests give false positives and that the medical community does not want to have men's PSA checked before 40 years of age. That was garbage information. I remember that my doctors would check my testosterone and they would consistently say my free testosterone levels were dropping. Because prostate cancer cells were taking their energy from my free testosterone. I am not bitter, but I am more informed. I would not wish this disease on the worst person in the world. The only good that might come out of this is maybe more money will be available for cancer research - which will lead to more treatments and hopefully a cure. Not just prostate cancer but for all cancer types. Because right now - I do not see much progress being made for the treatment of metastatic prostate cancer. It feels like after Pluvicto treatment, approval of Nubeqa and other ARSI's for castrate sensitive prostate cancer patients, and a few additional medications used to treat men with BRAC1 and BRAC2, there has not been much progress. We need a safe medication that reverses or prevents Castrate Resistance.