Prostate Cancer Awareness

Lon · Post by **Lon** » Sun Jun 03, 2007 6:44 pm

As a Prostate Cancer Survivor myself, I would like to encourage all males over 35 years old to have a PSA test. Yes, you can get Prostate Cancer if you are that young. Particularly at risk, are those males that have had immediate male family members that have had PC. One PSA test itself will not tell the whole story unless it is unusually high, but one year compared to the next can. A Digital Rectal Exam is another necessary test.

I had no symptoms and nothing noted on the Digital Rectal Exam. My PSA test was very low, but had doubled from the previous year. A biopsy confirmed that I had an agressive PC. That was 13 years ago.

Life is Good

JacksDad · Post by **JacksDad** » Sun Jun 03, 2007 7:11 pm

Thank you, Lon.

Post by **spot** » Sun Jun 03, 2007 11:41 pm

I've just looked up this somewhat medieval process, the Digital Rectal Exam. It is not, despite its name, a procedure involving discrete numbers. This is old-fashioned digits we're talking about.

"The patient is placed in a position where the anus is accessible and relaxed (lying on the side, squatting on the examination table, bent over the examination table, etc). The physician inserts a gloved and lubricated finger into the rectum through the anus and palpates the insides."

My practitioner is a lady, there's no possible way she'd behave like that.

zinkyusa · Post by **zinkyusa** » Mon Jun 04, 2007 6:43 am

Lon;628184 wrote: As a Prostate Cancer Survivor myself, I would like to encourage all males over 35 years old to have a PSA test. Yes, you can get Prostate Cancer if you are that young. Particularly at risk, are those males that have had immediate male family members that have had PC. One PSA test itself will not tell the whole story unless it is unusually high, but one year compared to the next can. A Digital Rectal Exam is another necessary test.

I had no symptoms and nothing noted on the Digital Rectal Exam. My PSA test was very low, but had doubled from the previous year. A biopsy confirmed that I had an agressive PC. That was 13 years ago.

Life is Good

Thanks for sharing that Lon, and glad you made it through.

Post by **Bryn Mawr** » Mon Jun 04, 2007 3:37 pm

I had the full battery of blood tests late last year as part of a study conducted by the university.

Happily, they didn't want me to continue in the study

Post by **spot** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 3:48 am

Bryn Mawr;628806 wrote: I had the full battery of blood tests late last year as part of a study conducted by the university.

Happily, they didn't want me to continue in the study :-)Perhaps they couldn't afford the full biohazard precautions?

Post by **Bryn Mawr** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 2:26 pm

spot;629015 wrote: Perhaps they couldn't afford the full biohazard precautions?

Nobody would be able to go *that* far!

guppy · Post by **guppy** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 3:17 pm

studies show that the more a man ejaculates...an average of at least four times a week..the less his odds are of getting prostrate cancer....

JacksDad · Post by **JacksDad** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 3:54 pm

guppy;629731 wrote: studies show that the more a man ejaculates...an average of at least four times a week..the less his odds are of getting prostrate cancer....

Whew! Good news.

No problem here then.

:D

zinkyusa · Post by **zinkyusa** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 4:09 pm

guppy;629731 wrote: studies show that the more a man ejaculates...an average of at least four times a week..the less his odds are of getting prostrate cancer....

oh you are a dear:-4

laneybug · Post by **laneybug** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 4:39 pm

guppy;629731 wrote: studies show that the more a man ejaculates...an average of at least four times a week..the less his odds are of getting prostrate cancer....

:wah: That's good news for men!

laneybug · Post by **laneybug** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 4:40 pm

spot;628229 wrote: I've just looked up this somewhat medieval process, the Digital Rectal Exam. It is not, despite its name, a procedure involving discrete numbers. This is old-fashioned digits we're talking about.

"The patient is placed in a position where the anus is accessible and relaxed (lying on the side, squatting on the examination table, bent over the examination table, etc). The physician inserts a gloved and lubricated finger into the rectum through the anus and palpates the insides."

My practitioner is a lady, there's no possible way she'd behave like that.

Nothing medieval about it really. That procedure is a lot less painful than getting prostate cancer. I'd have a doc "palpate my insides" any day instead of getting cancer.

guppy · Post by **guppy** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 4:41 pm

here is another good one for u...studies show that semen is good for women that are depressed....honest...:wah:

Bill Sikes · Post by **Bill Sikes** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 2:54 am

guppy;629731 wrote: studies show that the more a man ejaculates...an average of at least four times a week..the less his odds are of getting prostrate cancer....

So this disease must be rife amongst monks then - or are you saying they're all a bunch of wankers?

SuzyB · Post by **SuzyB** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 2:58 am

Bill Sikes;629959 wrote: So this disease must be rife amongst monks then - or are you saying they're all a bunch of wankers?

Bill

:wah:

Carl44 · Post by **Carl44** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 3:06 am

Bill Sikes;629959 wrote: So this disease must be rife amongst monks then - or are you saying they're all a bunch of wankers?

bad habbits