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54M, “favorable” prostate cancer diagnosis — surgery vs. radiation
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@toomany
Just to let you know about one point You were making.
“ nor could I pass it on to male children”
Unfortunately, this comment from the doctor is not true. A father or brother having prostate cancer more than increases the chance of the child/brother having it by More than double over a normal Chance of getting it. This is not me saying it. This is something that’s been presented by doctors at multiple prostate cancer forums I’ve been to..
My father died of prostate cancer. I got it at 62 because of him and because my mother gave me BRCA2. My brother got it at 77 because my father died of it and he did not get anything from my mother. You’ll find many generations of families that have prostate cancer passed from father to son. If there’s a genetic issue, then the child can get it younger.
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@jeffmarc Greetings Jeff, and as always, my thanks for your continued contributions to these various threads.
Let me start by saying that I am no trained or educated Geneticist, so I can't really speak to the validity of what was said by those who are, including any difference between 'genes' themselves and 'mutations' of those same genes, or whether such mutations can be congenital (i.e., passed-on, etc.)? I'm afraid all of that is well above my own pay-grade.
However, I do wish to clarify that it was not my oncologist, or a "doctor" of any kind, who had conveyed that information to me. Rather, it was a senior researcher of the genealogical group at the Huntsman Cancer Institute, entitled the Utah Population Database (UPDB), which links multi-generational family trees to medical and public health records. My "doctor" (or oncologist), simply concurred with it.