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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.

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Thank you, Lon.

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.

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.

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

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

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?

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


Nobody would be able to go *that* far!

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....

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

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

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!

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.

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

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?

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:

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