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?
No.
I ask myself a very simple question: how bad would I feel if I missed an early colon cancer in this individual? It makes no sense to deny someone who is robust, playing tennis 5 times a week, and on fewer meds than I am a colonoscopy just because they have the "wrong" number after their age.