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Originally Posted by Nathans_Dad View Post
While I agree that it is usually wise to follow the recommendations of your doctor, prostate cancer is a very slowly growing disease in the vast majority of patients. There is a subset of younger patients who get a more aggressive form, but the time from disease diagnosis to first symptoms can be years to decades in most cases. Prostate cancer is not your usual cancer as we think about it, again most people die WITH prostate cancer rather than FROM prostate cancer.
That's really prostate cancer in a nutshell. We really need better diagnostic tests.
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