Psa Levels

[Golden]

Now this may be a stupid question but something I’ve never understood

Why is prostate cancer vastly more prevalent in older men typically when their test levels have been the lowest they’ve been pretty much all their lives, if its testosterone driven?

Wouldn’t that necessitate that it should be a young man’s disease as they’re brimming with test ?

 

[BLKGUY2006]

Now this may be a stupid question but something I’ve never understood

Why is prostate cancer vastly more prevalent in older men typically when their test levels have been the lowest they’ve been pretty much all their lives, if its testosterone driven?

Wouldn’t that necessitate that it should be a young man’s disease as they’re brimming with test ?

I’ve thought the same thing. My father who is 77 and never had can said his Doc told him that every man will develop prostate or colon cancer if they live long enough. Some older fellas just never go get checked. I mean, if I’m 90 and they tell me I have prostate cancer I’m not doing a damn thing about it.

 

[Golden]

I spoke to a pathologist regarding the prostate. He said that prostate cancer is often over treated.

He said most prostate cancers are slow growing and if diagnosed in an older man, he’ll often die before the prostate cancer has advanced enough to get him anyway, so why aggressively treat them and cause that person to live with the side effects of that treatment

 

[Blackdream]

Now this may be a stupid question but something I’ve never understood

Why is prostate cancer vastly more prevalent in older men typically when their test levels have been the lowest they’ve been pretty much all their lives, if its testosterone driven?

Wouldn’t that necessitate that it should be a young man’s disease as they’re brimming with test ?

You would think so right?
That’s why I think they should control estradiol rather than testosterone