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Not only lack of marketing, but it’s only in recent years that broad based, comprehensive research has been done for PC. Noticed for years so much more for breast cancer
I agree 100%. The subject is like it is a closely guarded secret. I believe November is prostate cancer awareness month but how many have heard of that? I recently read an article about this subject. It was questionable at best and close to dismissing the disease as something a person is better off not finding out about. I actually ran into that when a doctor questioned my desire to test for PSA, asking me if I was sure I wanted to do that as it could open up a lot of concern for no good reason. In reality, it probably saved my life. What was he really saying? Not knowing you have a deadly cancer slowly growing inside until symptoms appear and it is too late for any curative treatment is better than knowing it is there and being concerned about it while it is still treatable? Are people so afraid to say, "You have a cancer, and it will not go away unless we at least try to eliminate it!" Granted, prostate cancer is all about unknowns and gambling on outcomes and it is traumatic at best. I know of a case where the person chose not to treat, knowing that treatment is almost always life changing. Quality of life was more important to him than longevity. He was much younger than me and lived that quality of life until that slow growing cancer consumed him. He went through his final few years of dealing with it as it slowly killed him and put his family though those awful years as well. I can't help but wonder what his thoughts were during those last couple years about his choice of not losing that one piece of quality life in trade for an early and slow death.
So yes, more importance and education are in need for this disease for all men. It is not a minor slow-moving disease that will not trouble you before something else kills you.
