Originally Posted by
HawkOwl
The threads on prostate cancer and a couple individual posts include advice to be tested frequently. But, what to do if you can't be tested?
After my last colonoscopy the surgeon told me that was my last one. I was now too old for testing. Then my primary care provider, an internal medicine MD, told me neither PSA nor manual prostate testing was appropriate any longer. In fact, for elders, apparently no colon or prostate cancer screening is the new standard.
Is that your experience?
Just saw my urologist and even though he will still be checking my PSA, they wouldn't likely do anything at my age if cancer developed. Seems that 80% of Prostrate cancer is slow growing and not life threatening. Something that my father-in-law would have liked to know before his prostrate surgery which led to a incontinence issue. I'm a little fuzzy about the more aggressive form and what they do in that case.