@heavyphil
@surftohealth88

One the engineering classes I really enjoyed was called “Numerical Analysis”.

It was exclusively about solving problems using only numbers…plugged into equations that were sometimes as long as your arm.

It was so refreshing to be able to end a 4 page stream of nothing but “hard and fast” numbers (in a plug and chug fashion) and come to a final, neat and elegant numerical solution.

Especially satisfying after ploughing through 25 credit hours of calculus and differential equations where everything had to stay and be finally expressed in alphabet soup notation.

I got into genealogy after retirement, and spent two years finding and triangulating “facts” from various independent sources in an attempt to discern the truth…one final consensus conclusion regarded as truth…in order to prove that a particular couple were actually my 9th great grandparents….I wrote a 350 page book about the subject.

In contrast to these experiences, low risk PCa (and I suspect most chronic medical issues), which is filled with numbers, trends (or not) and independent sources, BUT it doesn’t lead to a single “correct” answer.

In the case of low risk PCa, test data, trend analysis, medical opinions and independent research sources all lead to the same place….a bottomless pit of options.

Each person decides how far down they want to go before they make their “acceptable” answer.

Others may have arrived in the same place of the bottomless pit and made an equally acceptable, but completely different answer.

I say “so be it”.

All the best!