old mens disease

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Hi Terry, I really don't want to quibble with you. I consider you a

friend, and support your advocacy of active surveillance. You said,

prostate cancer is an old mens disease, It is in fact - at least as

far as killing men is concerned. The median age for death from the

disease is still in the mid-80s as it was before the PSA era began.

In other words more than half the men who die from PCa are over 80

years of age – and I think most people (other than men over 80) would

regard men of 80 as old men. The disease specific mortality rate only

really starts climbing after age 70. PCa death under the age of 40 is

statistically zero. Check out the SEER site for more detailed

information.

I say,

Having a disease is not the same as dying from a disease. I went to

the protonbob site where one can categorize the charts using

different criteria. There are now over 4,000 prostate cancer patients

who have joined. There is no requirement to join if one has been

treated at Loma . I checked on the membership by age when

treated.

I estimated that there are 900 members who were treated, in the age

group of 40-60. I stopped checking at age 60.

Dan Fogleberg's widow would probably take exception to your

statements about prostate cancer being an old mens disease. The well

known singer died a short time ago at the age of 56.

Laurel()