HintonJamesHeel
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5 year survival rate under 40%. Considering his age doesn’t seem crazy.
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I dunno. From a medical standpoint, I’d like to live 500-1,000 years in the future. But I’ll deal with our comparatively primitive medical treatments the best I can. Not really much choice unless I want to go the Ted Williams head freezing route.They really have been. From a medical standpoint, we are fortunate to live in the time we do.
I dunno. From a medical standpoint, I’d like to live 500-1,000 years in the future. But I’ll deal with our comparatively primitive medical treatments the best I can. Not really much choice unless I want to go the Ted Williams head freezing route.
You would think either a routine PSA or digital rectal exam would have picked it up. Occasionally you will have a normal PSA in aggressive prostate cancer.I’m a little puzzled… prostate cancer at 82 is not surprising, but having bone mets at diagnosis is surprising (at least for someone who was president of the United States just a few months ago). Hard to believe no one thought to check a PSA at any point.
Plus preventive steps/procedures are given much more attention now from PCP’s to the media to even insurance companies. Sorry to hear you lost your dad that way and so young.Colon cancer cost my dad his life at 53 (back in 1997). The advances since then have been amazing.
Hard to "like" this comment, But it's true. Prostate cancer will not be the "cause of death" at the end.no big deal...
you die with prostate cancer but not because you have prostate cancer...
If a person dies of cancer isn’t the cause of death where the cancer started? Certainly prostate cancer in and of itself isn’t fatal (like breast cancer); however the problem with cancer is it spreads. The same would be true of skin cancer.Hard to "like" this comment, But it's true. Prostate cancer will not be the "cause of death" at the end.
Thanks for clarifying that for me. My father lived to be 90. He had his last colonoscopy when he was 84 I think. The doctor told him he wouldn’t need another one because colon cancer was generally not an aggressive cancer and, at his age , he would probably die of something else before colon cancer would kill him.Prostate cancer absolutely can be fatal. I’ve seen it several times.
Also, I think Center is likely saying the typical presentation of prostate CA advances slowly, and the person dies of heart failure, pneumonia, dementia, etc. long before the CA has spread enough to kill.
Correct. But my point is made by Healing.If a person dies of cancer isn’t the cause of death where the cancer started? Certainly prostate cancer in and of itself isn’t fatal (like breast cancer); however the problem with cancer is it spreads. The same would be true of skin cancer.
Probably yes, but nothing this serious.So I'm playing both sides do it too now - a little "What about trump and his doctors? They have to be misleading too, correct?"
Early detection is the key. Mine was found early and I’m very grateful to my doctors. Pancreatic cancer is one of the deadliest cancers because it’s asymptomatic in its early stages. Eric Idle of Monty Python went in to something else checked. They found he had pancreatic cancer in its very early stages and they were able to successfully treat it.Correct. But my point is made by Healing.
My thinking on this was that most prostate cancer is very treatable if found early enough. One would think that Biden has been under the best doctor's care for several years now and they would have detected it ASAP - And as Healing said, at Biden's age, it's more than likely that he will die of something else before the actual prostate cancer can get him. I was also speaking to the fact of what the actual death certificate will say... likely something else besides "he died of prostate cancer". Mind you, it could possibly say something like "died of complications brought on by prostate cancer."
Either way, I'm sorry for old Joe and I wish him God's speed and my heart goes out to the family and the Nation. Biden served his country well and will go down in history as a great man, and a good President. He may not wind up on the "top ten" list, but I'll bet he'll rank higher on any list than Drumpster.
Absolutely NO way he wrote that. Not a single misspelled word. Not a single word in ALL CAPS. Referenced Melania. Called Biden by his first name.Don did not write this.
As an old codger my PSA has been creeping higher for some time. I ignore the PSA and monitor my free PSA score which is a much more reliable indicator. Fortunately, my PSA notwithstanding, my free PSA has been good and has been consistent for years.There is a"story" regarding how could POTUS not get a better diagnosis of cancer that has been there for years.There is a good "public Health " story of how crappy PSA tests are-very shaky dignostic tool
The "story" where endless strings of Physicians talk about a particular life threatening disease for an individual-in this case an XPotus-that story makes me puke.. GEEZ-show some decency
Imagine if this was President Trump... this board would be ripping him, the GOP to shreds and the MSM would be covering it as the biggest scandal ever.
Who was running the country?
Who was making the decisions on the pardons?
The autopen was signing every document.
Where was Joe?
All of this just to maintain power. Well.... be careful when you throw rocks if your entire existence is in a glass house.
Imagine if this was President Trump... this board would be ripping him, the GOP to shreds and the MSM would be covering it as the biggest scandal ever.
Who was running the country?
Who was making the decisions on the pardons?
The autopen was signing every document.
Where was Joe?
All of this just to maintain power. Well.... be careful when you throw rocks if your entire existence is in a glass house.