What I find so annoying is how there are so many people (outside of this platform) who are just shocked and devastated about this news. I am over here like...the man is in his eighties. He is an elderly man. We should not be that surprised about some illness popping up at that age.
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This is why after 60, I’m not going to try to be president. I’m retiring. Guy spent the last few good years he had stressed out running the country when he should’ve been playing bingo and sitting on a beach.
I'm told you absolutely can be president and still relax on your golf course while setting the world on fire through Shitter.
Fair play to him for taking the difficult route instead.
Its fine, he was playing bingo and sitting in a bench while he was president. Also took a lot of naps and vacation days.
I was torn between president and walmart greeter
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Why can't the current president get aggressive cancer? Everyone would love that (although I would pity the cancer).
What if he is already a malignant tumor?
with the amount of preservatives he got from eating mcdonalds, its probably very difficult for him to get it.
I'd feel sorry for the cancer
In fascist America, cancer gets Trump!
Por que no los dos?
I guess I wasn't thinking joe biden shouldn't have cancer just that donald trump definitely should.
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Wishing him all the best. I have seen quite a few men die to that disease (no one dies of prostate cancer but it spreads really fast and to really bad places).
Good luck Biden.
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Since this is an opportunity to educate people about health, I will not discuss politics here. :)
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If you're a guy, your urinary tract is stupidly complicated from a medical viewpoint and there's a prostate beneath the bladder which hydrogenates testosterone (T is produced by the brain) into dihydrotestosterone, produces fluid to mix the seminal fluid with, and generally supports fertility and gender specific phenotype.
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With progressing age, the prostate enlarges, gets infected with HPV (nearly everyone gets it) and may get bacterial infections (typical ones are E. coli). It may also develop calcinations.
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Risk is reduced if you live in Asia and eat a traditional menu containing much soy bean products which enables guys in those regions to enjoy several times less prostate cancer.
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Risk is increased with nearly every urinary tract infection, especially if not conclusively diagnosed and treated.
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After the age of 40, regularly have PSA (prostate specific antigen) measured from a blood test. It tells how much disintegration and immune reaction is occurring down there.
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Regularly have ultrasound check-ups done. If there are UTI symptoms, treatment must not occur blindly, but must be followed by observation.
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If you are young and your home country has medical insurance that covers HPV vaccination, get it while it's free (because it costs 150 € a dose). If you're rich enough, there may be a point in getting it later too, especially if you've not had unsafe sex (it doesn't protect after infection). The majority of people get HPV during their lives and approximately 9 strains cause cervical cancer in women and raise the risk of prostate cancer in men. By getting vaccinated against HPV, you protect both yourself and your partners from drawing a ticket in a quite nasty lottery.
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As long as prostate cancer is androgen dependent, it can be suppressed with an androgen blockade.
The PSA test is no longer suggested, as more people were injured from complications caused by procedures that false positives caused then people saved.
My dad almost died from a complication due to a biopsy. About 20 years later, he got prostate cancer which was detected without a PSA test, treated, and is now cancer free.
Good point. Biopsies can cause complications.
PSA is still recommended here (it's cheap) but only its negative answer is considered reliable.
- PSA negative: all clear
- PSA positive: do a non-invasive scan and more blood tests, don't immediately proceed to a biopsy
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This morning while driving to work I heard on NPR that doctors recommend screenings for people between 50 and 60 years of age. The guy said that older people like 70's and 80's have more problems and I missed exactly what the reasoning other than aggravating them with one more problem was for not screening that group actively.
But you and I know. Its simple! 50 and 60 year olds are still working do they got money. 80 year olds don't have money. No reason to screen them. Sure the treatments work...kinda sorta. But the treatments are expensive. So if you're 80 its not important that they find your cancer because they can't make money from you. If you're well to do, then sure, we can try our methods. But if you got no money, there's no point. What are you going to do anyway with no job and no money. Even if you could pay, then what? Sell the car and house and live on the streets? Would that be worse? Not really the doctors don't care if they got paid. Its all about the money.
When I'm 80 I'm not going to waste my time and money getting treated just to end up with an extra few years with a terrible quality of life.
I hate the healthcare industry, and it absolutely is a scam.
It is more of a matter that the treatments at around 70+ can be worse than not doing anything. You can get impotence, incontinence (bowel and/or urinary), etc. The older you get the harder the treatments (surgery, hormone therapy, radiation, chemo) hit you. Early signs of prostate cancer, like PSA levels, are generally very slow to develop and you'll likely have other major issues before the prostate becomes an issue.
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