My uncle had prostate cancer & did nothing. He died an uncomfortable death at 84.

His brother (my father) had bladder cancer & had it promptly treated by multiple uncomfortable treatments via a probe up the urethra to zap the cancer, & subsequent uncomfortable probes to verify the cancer was gone. He was pronounced cured & lived to be 101.

I was offered "nerve-sparing" prostate surgery, but the biopsy showed the cancer had already reached the surface of the gland. It took literally all of three seconds to decide to continue to live rather than to die a stud. No regrets. If I did have regrets, there are treatments that many find successful.

When I was very young, I needed some expensive medicine for something, my father told me later. He asked the doctor what treatment was used before this medicine was available. The doctor said two words: "Kids died."

My friend who tried to weather his case of COVID without treatment, died. I volunteered with government health agencies helping to provide COVID testing, & later, vaccines. There was one case of a woman who was hospitalized with COVID & was properly treated for it. All the time in the hospital she kept denying that she had COVID, & in fact those were her very last words.

There's a theme here ...