142 said...
I often listen to the died of / died with PCa comment. I have left instructions that my obit will say "after a long battle with Prostate Cancer". Why? The stroke or heart attack that is really likely to kill me will certainly be a side effect of all the years of meds and chemo.
95 year old fighter pilot, RIP. There may be hope for me becoming an Nonagenarian!
I'm have a strong suspicion that the approximately 200,000 men diagnosed with PCa in the USA, yearly is quite misleading, since so many men are NEVER diagnosed. The actual number of men developing PCa every year is much higher.
The reported deaths per year attributed to prostate cancer is about
35,000 (according to Suri), also probably inaccurately low, for the reasons in 142's quote above. I suspect many doctors and death certificates have no clue that the deceased even had PCa, much less than that was the primary cause of something else killing him.
It's all cleat as mud....
One other point. Of the 7 men that I know who have died of PCa, not one had the long, drawn out, excruciating death, we are sometimes lead to believe. Perhaps another PCa Old Wives' Tale, promulgated in part, to spur on over-treatment.
A reasonable theory????