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  • Thordros [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    13 days ago

    I hate to be Mr. Killjoy, but prostate cancer screening in old men is worthless. It’s one of the least aggressive forms of cancer—usually taking 10 to 15 years to kill you—and treating it at that age is more likely to shorten your lifespan than the tumor itself.

    Cool that he’s gonna die eventually, but there’s no coverup here.

      • RION [she/her]@hexbear.net
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        12 days ago

        The blood test, no, but biopsies and such based on a false positive might, and apparently PSA tests have a pretty bad false positive and false negative rate

        Maybe he should’ve got the doc’s finger up there once in a while tho