BCR and morbidity

Thanks for posting this reachout. I'm like you.. looking for any silver lining I can find!

David, good point. On the other hand, the article says
"By contrast, in RP and RT patients who did experience BCR, 5-, 10-, and 15-year cumulative mortality rates were 3%, 11%, and 21%, and 11%, 20%, and 42%, respectively."

So at 15 years, "only" 21% of RP patients with BCR had died. That means 4 out of 5 had not, which are pretty good odds. Sure, these were older men but if 4 out of 5 were still fighting PC off at their age, I would think a 40 or 50 year old's stronger system would fight it off even better. And they may have fought it off for much longer, the study just cut off at 15 years.

I don't know about you, but 15 years to me is sort of an infinite horizon, no matter the age. I'm 66 now and I don't really relish the idea of being around in my 80s and 90s with all the issues that entails, though I realize there are many men that age who are very agile. I felt the same when I was 50, 65 was way in the future to me. Maybe once we pass prime child rearing age we begin to put older age in perspective.

At the age of almost 70 I'll take 10 years and call it a night. Death doesn't really scare me, what does scare me is what comes before it happens. I wouldn't mind a a quick heart attack. My brother had PCa and died at the age of 70 from a massive heart attack.