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My 48 year old younger brother was recently diagnosed with an aggressive type of prostate cancer, Luckily it hadn't spread ! he will undergo a radical prostectomy on this coming Tuesday please remember him in your Prayers...for all you guy's over 40 out there get your prostate checked yearly It could SAVE YOUR LIFE !!

I told my Doc if I get Prostate Cancer I will die with it, I will not have prostate surgery. He now just checks my PSA once a year.

My BIL just had surgery for prostate cancer about a month ago. He's around 60 and the prognosis sounds good.

Hoping the best for your little brother.

Prayers on the way.

They can use radiation. That's what my BIL did and it worked out fine.

The last thing I would do is let them remove my prostate, there are worst things than dying.

Best wishes to your brother.

Best of luck to your brother !

Had mine out in 06' "open field surgery" the best way to ensure it's contained. bea, it's a horrible way to die as it spreads to bones and you fall apart.

Get that PSA checked every year ! Two keys in PSA reading if any change:
1. the change in the number.
2. the velocity of change (how fast it changes over time)

Will offer prayer tomorrow.

I have been annually tracking PSA for ten years. Dr. says no need for a digital exam with current blood tests.

I am never an easy stick. I still prefer the vampire to the butt rapist.

Prayer sent. I had my prostate removed in 2010 at Johns Hopkins. Got it before it spread.

Done.

Two of my hunting buddies in their late 50s had theirs removed couple years ago.
Both are good to go today.
I get the finger and PSA test annually.

My Doc says the bad news is if you are male and you live long enough, you'll probably get prostate cancer. The good news is that for most of us it's slow growing enough that we'll die of something else.

Good luck to your brother on his surgery, I pray things turn out well.

Get mine checked every year, God only knows why but Mrs. Mag wants me to stick around.

My Doctor told me the same thing. I'll be 72 later this month, and he says that my next PSA and finger check will be my last.

Right behind you, last round - no pun intended. I turn 69 in a week or so and have a biannual physical soon after. Doc says I'm healthy enough that he only needs to see me every other year. From my last exam, he said he'd schedule me for another colonoscopy when I'm 70 but because I've been clean until now, that would be my last one of those, too.

I don't mind the finger check, quite honestly. It isn't pleasant but it's no big deal, either. Doc is 20 years younger than I am and he gets upset (in jest) that he has to get up to pee every night but I don't. Says I have the prostate of a 40-yo and he's jealous, lol!

Presumably by Dr. Patrick Walsh or one of those taught by him. He is now retired, n
but the last I heard, he was still doing operations.

My doctors in Japan, who were pretty impressive, had attended Walsh surgeries in the JH operating theater.

Don't stop the PSA tests. They told my father the same thing stopped checking him. Last year at 92 he got prostate cancer, couldn't urinate, ended up with 9 weeks of radiation (they wouldn't/couldn't operate b/c of his blood thinners, and age).
Got the cancer OK, but still messed him up and left him with a catheter and bag from now on. If they had still been checking his PSA it may have been caught sooner and treated with less damage.

Got the news last week, my brother is in the hospital in Arizona with pancreatic cancer. They are getting ready to fly him and his wife home for treatment in Seattle.

It was really devastating news as we lost our dad to pancreatic cancer in May of 1959 at the age of 56.

Care to explain the thought process?