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I agree. My father died "with" prostate cancer. His doctors told him that it would not impact his life span by even a day nor impact his quality of life even one iota. And it didn't. However, if doctors had aggressively treated that prostate cancer, then it would have dramatically decreased my father's quality of life in his last years and would not have extended his life by a single second.
Especially when it has spread to the bones. Can probably be treated but the treatments can be extremely damaging to people in Biden’s condition.
Did you even read that it has spread? No big deal because it isn’t your family member.
Depends very much on the type of prostate cancer. Some cases are much more deadly.
A diagnosis of prostate cancer was a big nothing for my father. Had zero effect on his life, his quality of life, or his life span. My understanding is that the vast majority of men the age of my father when he died, 82, have prostate cancer. Whether a diagnosis of prostate cancer is a "big deal" depends on how aggressive it is and how old the patient is. When my time comes, which it most definitely will, I pray doctors don't try to "cure" my of stuff that would have no impact on me because by the time what I was being treated for would pose a problem, I would have already been in a grave for five or ten years.
Generally true but depends on the form. I know of 2 men who died in their early 50s of an aggressive form of prostrate cancer. OTOH, my dad died with PC at 95, but not due to PC.
The way the urologist explained it to me when they examine a biopsy of the prostate and they find cancer they grade the cells. Type 3 cancer cells are non aggressive. If they make up the all the cancerous cells then you monitor the cancer with regular PSA and biopsy tests. Type 4 is more aggressive. When they were found in my biopsy type 3 were the dominant cells, but the cancer was getting more aggressive. If type 5 are found then there is reason for immediate concern and action for these cells are most likely to spread quickly.
He has Gleason 9 with boney mets. Life expectancy depends on how he responds to hormone ablation therapy.
Hope and pray that everything works out for him. I’m old enough to remember when a cancer diagnosis was a virtual death sentence. But treatments have improved so much since I was young. Hopefully, one day cures will be found for that shitty, shitty disease.
Colon cancer cost my dad his life at 53 (back in 1997). The advances since then have been amazing.
They really have been. From a medical standpoint, we are fortunate to live in the time we do.