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Aloha,
My wife, Sandy & I joined the PLCO study here in Hawaii ten years ago. She got the screening, I got the no screening. My DRE, for years was and has been "normal, slightly hard on one side". It was an accident that my PC was discovered, and the PSA rose from 8 to 14 in six months, before the biopsy showed all 12 cores cancer.
As the Hawaii PLCO study states, those PC cases in the unscreen group had G = 8 to 10, mine was G = 9. It is interesting that in the writeup we got, more men died of PC in the screen group (92 in 10 years) as apposed to the non-screen group (82 in 10 years). This is not a significant difference (3,452 screen men vs. 2,974
non-screen men).
Faith, Hope & Love,
Joe
