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How tall are you? (PCa Positive Patients only)
Under 6 feet - 42.6% - 23 votes
6 Feet and over - 57.4% - 31 votes
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Posted 2/15/2009 5:51 PM (GMT 0)
This is a poll that was sparked by our friend Purgatory's thread...The notion is that tall people get prostate cancer more frequently.  i don't buy it, but I may be wrong...Don't tell Ruth is I am wrong...Please enter you vote.  I drew the line at 6'...

Tony

Posted 2/15/2009 6:32 PM (GMT 0)
5'8" (Shortest male in my family, all brothers and nephews are well over 6', my mother is 4'11", and she said she was taller than either of her parents! So I guess I took after the wee side,lol)
Posted 2/15/2009 6:51 PM (GMT 0)
6'4"...nuff said (I think)

Salty

Posted 2/15/2009 6:55 PM (GMT 0)
6' 1" here.
Posted 2/15/2009 8:00 PM (GMT 0)
5'8"
Posted 2/15/2009 8:12 PM (GMT 0)
5"9" for me. My father was about 5'7" and he also had PCa.
Posted 2/15/2009 8:13 PM (GMT 0)
about 6 feet even methinks.
Posted 2/15/2009 9:16 PM (GMT 0)
6' 3"
Posted 2/15/2009 9:30 PM (GMT 0)
175 tongue
Posted 2/15/2009 10:34 PM (GMT 0)
Bill,
175 is more than six...I guesss David is right...We're all tall....lolol

I thought about the metric system when I posted, but I had no clue what 6' was and I was too lazy to look it up...:-)

Tony
Posted 2/15/2009 10:55 PM (GMT 0)
Tony, perhaps most are tall here, but there are some of us wee ones too, I don't find any useful stock in the article that I posted, did it more out of curiousity
Posted 2/16/2009 12:33 AM (GMT 0)
I'm 5 10.
Posted 2/16/2009 12:37 AM (GMT 0)
Thank you all...I think I want toi remind us all to not use our fishing measurement tapes...lol... Mr. Mozart, I want a recount...lol...Gravity may have changed it since you posted.

For the record...I am 5' 10".

Tony
Posted 2/16/2009 12:40 AM (GMT 0)
175 is about 5'9'' Six foot is about 180 cm
Posted 2/16/2009 2:00 AM (GMT 0)

5' 8" here.....so much for being tall!!!

  Think a size 7 1/2 EE shoe makes any difference?.....lolol

    KW

Posted 2/16/2009 2:11 AM (GMT 0)
5' 10" here. Not sure if this is consider tall.
Posted 2/16/2009 2:18 AM (GMT 0)
Again I set "Tall" to 6'. Kris did you just post on the bottom number?
Posted 2/16/2009 2:18 AM (GMT 0)
6'3" here.  my Dad is 5'9" and he had PC also. 
Posted 2/16/2009 2:31 AM (GMT 0)
5' 10"
Posted 2/16/2009 2:34 AM (GMT 0)
Gee, we may have to divide into two teams, the wee fellows under 5'10" and the taller guys, lol.
Posted 2/16/2009 3:12 AM (GMT 0)

Purgatory said...
Gee, we may have to divide into two teams, the wee fellows under 5'10" and the taller guys, lol.

Ok then we'll play basketball... I bet on us.
Posted 2/16/2009 3:40 AM (GMT 0)
not fair ziggy. lol
Posted 2/16/2009 3:59 AM (GMT 0)
I see we jocky the Kentucky Derby....
Posted 2/16/2009 4:16 AM (GMT 0)
6' 3" - Maybe we should check to see how many tall persons play basketball in their younger years. Perhaps its not being tall, its that we played basketball tongue
Posted 2/16/2009 4:36 AM (GMT 0)
6' 4" ... I think I see a trend here ... ( also had vasectomy -- TWO strikes, right?)
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