Super Bowl Ad: Relax Your Tight End

I don't, however, understand why Gronk is in a Bucs jersey!? I know he played for them, but he is famously a NE Patriot. That's a head-scratcher.

Good commercial, game not so good.

Serious question though. Even though many PCPs no longer do PSA/DRE for men in their 70s, do we all agree that is a bad practice? Even an older man should know if he potentially has PCa, correct? How he chooses to treat it, that's a different topic, but even goes 70++ should get PSAs regularly?

@jeff1963 ABSOLUTELY!!!

Wow. That was perfect. Thankyou for highlighting that.
I have zero interest in American football & couldn't name one team, so would never have seen that.
Very well done.

@jeff1963 It depends. If during my 40s, 50s, to late-60s, my normal PSA stayed very low, then it’s a different situation than if my PSA is 6, 7, or 8+ at those ages per the Mayo age-related PSA chart. (See attached.)

(Even when I was younger, whether to get a PSA test was my call, not my PCPs.)

As I get older and my time horizon gets shorter and shorter, the decision whether to continue PSA testing has to be made. Now understanding how slow-growing PCa is, at 80+ I’d only get a PSA test if I was already getting other bloodwork done. (I’m 70-1/2 now, so that date is not too far away.)

@jeff1963
Yes! Get PSA tested into the 70's.
I was 75 but the PC turned out to be aggressive and escaped the capsule. Glad I had the RALP and PSA staying negligible.

@grandpun When you were diagnosed with PCa at 75y, had you already been getting annual PSA tests throughout your 40s, 50s, and 60s?

@brianjarvis
Not regularly till I had a bout of BPH at age ~72. Then regularly every 6-months at urologist's direction. My 2-ish values then shot up to 5. In the next 3-months (before RALP) I had two biopsies. First was negative, second found the PC with some aggressive cells. That's when decision made for prostatectomy

@grandpun That’s a lesson-learned for all guys - start testing early and annually. Waiting until late-60s or early-70s results in a possibly badly-stacked deck, with possibly fewer options.

When I was 45y, I told my family doctor that I wanted to start having annual PSA tests. That was waaaaay back in 2000. Tested every year…..then, we found low-grade, localized PCa in 2012; went on active surveillance for about 9 years (buying me time to evaluate treatments); then had proton beam radiation in 2021.

These days, just PSA tests every 6 months….just another day.

Yes indeed!
My dad had PC, my older bro had PC, then me. So I ordered!! my two boys (in their 40's) to get annual tests.