They will tell you prostate cancer is inevitable if you live long enough, but is it? There are populations in the world with very high rates of prostate cancer, but there are also populations where the rates are negligible.
Category: prostate cancer
Prostate Cancer Treatment
What I’ve learned about prostate cancer treatment is that the low-dose radiation treatment in the last 10 years has gotten a lot better because now they use machines that have a precise demarcation for the prostate gland in targeting the radiation.
The other thing that I really had no knowledge of is the role testosterone plays. Testosterone promotes the growth of prostate cancer cells, but if you reduce it to the castration level with hormone treatment (a vaccination), you “starve” the prostate cancer cell into submission.
That seems to be the standard non-invasive treatment for prostate cancer these days: hormone treatment combined with low-dose radiation.
I had 28 sessions of low-dose radiation, which is typical. But each session is quite expensive. Thankfully, I have Medicare and supplemental health insurance, but I do think if someone is unlucky enough to get prostate cancer before the age of 62 when Medicare kicks in, the high cost of the standard radiation treatment would be a significant issue.
Prostate Cancer Benefit
How is it that a diagnosis of prostate cancer can be beneficial? Well, when you get this diagnosis, it makes one take one’s mortality more seriously, and that leads to appreciate one’s current days and moments during the day that much more, for they are now more finite — no longer more or less unlimited. So one had better stay in the moment and appreciate it for all its worth.
Henry's Views 