[gchappel]

One big problem with prostate cancer is most, but not all, prostate cancers are slow to progress and often cause no problem.
There is, however, a small but real percentage of these that are very aggressive- and kill.
We can detect these malignancies pretty easily.
But, we can not separate the aggressive from the non aggressive forms until it is too late.
So if you ignore it in a large population of older men most will do fine. Unless you are the one that doesn't.
I lost a distant friend to prostate CA- he was 54.
Gary