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Sad news, but I think he declined treatment very early on
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What are your sources?
I was diagnosed at PSA 28 due to my own ignorance. I’ve assumed Scott was in the same boat.
It matters to me because I’m disappointed that he didn’t share what wrong choices and bad decisions he made. I don’t mean I wished for a struggle session. I wishes for Scott to use his audience and remaining time to raise awareness of how a wealthy, intelligent man can die from a preventable disease.
I’ve never found any discussion by Scott of his journey - meaning, again, how did it get so advanced? So if you’ve heard details please share the source.
It won’t help me. I know how I let it get so far. I’d like to understand how Scott’s got so far. No man should die if this disease but if wealthy guys like Scott Adams & Ryne Sandberg are dying then PC prevention messaging is inadequate.
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@kenshabby ❝How did it get so advanced?❞
I suspect my situation was similar to yours and Mr Adams' — my PSA was nearly 68 and the cancer had spread to my spine before I had a clue that I might have any cancer, much less prostate cancer (I was only 56 at the time). The doctors told me that a small minority of prostate cancer cases are like that — they srart young and metastasise almost immediately. That's probably the kind that killed people like Frank Zappa, Johnny Ramone, and Bill Bixby young.
Fortunately, these days, even de-novo advanced prostate cancer is often manageable long term with new meds and treatment strategies, if you get in early and treat it aggressively. That wasn't the case 5–10 years ago, but we have real hope today that they didn't have.
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@kenshabby I agree it would be nice to know some details of Scott Adams and Ryne Sandbergs situations. It would help many men by raising awareness. However, in my situation, I had my psa tested every year since 2016, but all of the sudden in Jan 2025 it had gone to 4.3 from 1.0 and I now have Gleason 9 IDPC. I think sometimes men get crazy aggressive PCa and you can’t always blame the man for not getting screened. I wish I would have been getting tested every 3 months but im not sure anyone does that prior to a cancer diagnosis.