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Prostate cancer and work vs. retirement
Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Dec 16, 2025 | Replies (38)Comment receiving replies
I was diagnosed a year ago at age 63, had surgery this past spring just before turning 64. Recovery went really well and I was back to work after a couple weeks. I'm feeling healthy enough to continue working full time, but had been planning to retire within another year or two. My prognosis is really good, so I don't have any direct reasons to change my plan. That said, my mother died at 67 and my eldest sister died at 65 - both of cancer. My finances are decent enough to retire at any time. All things considered, I've got things I want to do that don't involve my occupation. I don't know how much time I have (odds are I'll live into my 90's), but I am choosing to retire this coming spring when I turn 65. I'd say it's a personal choice to live out my best life on my own terms.
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Have you had hereditary, genetic testing? When you have multiple relatives getting cancer, it can mean that you have a genetic issue. Better to know about it than to have a reoccurrence because you inherited a problem. I had surgery and 3 1/2 years later it came back. Didn’t find out about the fact that I had inherited BRCA2 From my mother until 10 years after surgery. I had three more reoccurrences since then. Both of her sisters and one of my cousins got breast cancer. One sister and my cousin died from it. My grandfather died from pancreatic cancer. On the other side, my father died of prostate cancer.
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