#68

tbf if my entire family wasn’t absolutely riddled with it I’d probably be none the wiser. My Dad and all his brothers have got it - even the one who’s got a different Dad!

#69

Fucking hell man, sorry to hear that. Not trying to diminish the tragedy here or anything but it’s quite a treatable cancer as far as I know and cure rates are quite high. Hope your fam are getting the all clear Geoffrey.

#70

Afternoon all! Did a bit of work this morning and am now listening to ‘Bad Timing’ by Jim O’Rourke before a friend calls up for tea.

Will go back out and do more work around three before going to two exhibition openings at six and seven o’clock respectively. They’ll be the last exhibitions in this grim beast of a building before it’s shuttered and torn down.

#71

This is the point - if you catch it early then you’re pretty much grand unless you’ve got an aggressive form of it. Spot of hormone therapy and regular monitoring is all that’s needed. My Uncle’s went a bit full blown last year so he had a course of reasonably uninvasive radiotherapy and it’s cleared up for now.

You’re more likely to die with prostate cancer than of it, if that makes sense. Most of the people who die of it either a) have an aggressive form which metastasises rapidly (in which case - unlucky) or b) have had it undetected for years and didn’t do anything about it until old age where your body is unable to fight it. But yeah in most cases (like my Grandad) he died of lung cancer but when they did the post-mortem they were like “ah he had prostate cancer as well”.

#72

There are thresholds in age above which it usually becomes beneficial to screen people for cancers - below that and the risk of false positives and unecessary treatment outweighs the benefits in terms of the health of the patients and resources.

At present, there is no prostate cancer screening, because of the above:

http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer/prostate-cancer/getting-diagnosed/screening

#73

On slide 21/115 :frowning:

#74

Yes. Hence why I didn’t say screening but I’ll still be enquiring about an examination and a blood test for PSA etc. with my GP when I’m about 40 given my family history.