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Subject: [Leica] OT (very) The Great Prostate Debate: Does Screening Save Lives?: Scientific American
From: steve.barbour at gmail.com (Steve Barbour)
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2012 19:12:47 -0800
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On Feb 8, 2012, at 6:11 PM, J. Newell wrote:

> There is definitely a difference between dying "with" and dying "from" 
> cancer (or any number of other conditions. :-) :-( 


a very good point John, please see my response to Aram,

Steve


> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mark Rabiner" <mark at rabinergroup.com> 
> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> 
> Sent: Wednesday, February 8, 2012 8:54:03 PM 
> Subject: Re: [Leica] OT (very) The Great Prostate Debate: Does Screening 
> Save Lives?: Scientific American 
> 
> I'm glad I'm on the list with you guys a decade or two older than me (I'm 
> 61). My Dad died early he was 52, in 1979 so I need role models. That's 
> what 
> Dad's are for giving you and idea of how you're going to get older. 
> His dad lived to be 90 though. So I'll take after him. 
> 
> -- 
> Mark R. 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/winterdays/ 
> 
> 
>> From: Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net> 
>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> 
>> Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2012 18:36:54 -0600 
>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> 
>> Subject: Re: [Leica] OT (very) The Great Prostate Debate: Does Screening 
>> Save 
>> Lives?: Scientific American 
>> 
>> Ken, 
>> 
>> I appreciate the view of your family practice doc. I watched my late 
>> father-in-law go through radiology treatments in a brand new facility 
>> while 
>> in his 80s, and then suffer side effects for the remainder of his days. I 
>> can't help but feel that the urologist was just trying to boost the 
>> patient 
>> count at the new facility. 
>> 
>> I will soon be 82, and ceased to be tested several years ago. 
>> 
>> Jim Nichols 
>> Tullahoma, TN USA 
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Ken Carney" <kcarney1 at cox.net> 
>> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> 
>> Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2012 6:21 PM 
>> Subject: Re: [Leica] OT (very) The Great Prostate Debate: Does Screening 
>> Save Lives?: Scientific American 
>> 
>> 
>>> On 2/8/2012 10:24 AM, Steve Barbour wrote: 
>>>> keeping this important debate alive... 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=the-great-prostate-debate
>>>>  
>>>> 
>>>> 
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>>> My urologist has had me do eight PSA tests in the past two years, all of 
>>> which hover around the same score save for one outlier. We have now gone 
>>> to six months. He is cautious about avoiding a biopsy, because of 
>>> possible complications and prefers just to "watch and wait". Our family 
>>> practice doc says he usually doesn't recommend the test for males 70 and 
>>> older (me), since "treatment will just screw up whatever time you have 
>>> left" (maybe not the best bedside manner but I appreciate an honest 
>>> opinion). Anyway, postings about this and other health issues are 
>>> appreciated, so long as it doesn't involve red wine suddenly not being 
>>> good for you. 
>>> 
>>> Ken 
>>> 
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>>> 
>> 
>> 
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