More wood for my fire.

Joey,

If you're like most guys, your anxiety will reduce over time. Humans are very adaptive creatures - we almost always find ways of accommodating to whatever life dishes out.

Rather than trying to project whether you do or don't have the personality to deal with AS at some imagined future time, you have the option of living with it for now, and seeing how you do. If after a few months, you find that your anxiety has not diminished, you can always seek treatment at that time. And because you have continued to monitor the cancer all along, there is little risk. AS is the only treatment that is not irrevocable -- you can always choose treatment later.

In your area, you have your choice of several excellent AS programs.

I don't know what your stats are, but you might ask yourself how living with possible life altering SEs in order to treat a- I suppose- really low chance you have of later dying of PC. Of course, if you are not considering surgery, your chance of bad SEs might be a good bit lower. But it is not zero. If you are a good candidate for AS- and apparently you are- your SEs for however long you can stay on AS will be zero. And that is no small advantage, believe me.