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Xamanismo Coletivo

"Continued reductions in #cancermortality because of drops in smoking, better treatment, and earlier detection is certainly great news. However, this progress is tempered by rising incidence in young and middle-aged women, who are often the family caregivers, and a shifting cancer burden from men to women, harkening back to the early 1900s when #cancer was more common in women.

Another nationwide study from earlier this year found that between 1975 and 2020, almost 6 million deaths from five of the most common cancers (#breast, #cervical, #colorectal, #lung and #prostate cancer) were averted through a combination of #prevention, #screening, and improved #treatments."

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Kev "Pop's" Wheeler

I'm not what you might call in prime condition, I'm 68 years old & I have #HealthIssues. I am a #HeartAttack and #TripleBypass Surgery survivor back in 2018, left with a #HeartCondition.

I have #ChronicKidneyDisease coupled with a troublesome #Prostate that interferes with my #Bladder meaning I have a permanent #Catheter.
My #BloodPressure can get a little out of whack, I can also fall into #Anxiety or #Depression but not like I used to. Finally I have #Arthritis at the base of my Spine.

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Mike 🇬🇧 🇪🇺

@Chigaze @greem
PSA isn't approved for good reason as a routine screening test in the British Health Service - although men over 50 can request their doctor to do one (most doctors would only do one alongside (before) a rectal examination).

It's an excellent test for monitoring the progression of known prostate cancer and its treatment, but it can be raised in a huge number of other non-cancer situations. It is not a diagnostic test.
The gold standard test is still a digital rectal examination by someone who's been trained to spot the signs of cancer. This can be followed up with an MRI if there's any suspicious findings.

Sorry, but I fear that the use of PSA as a screening tool is a way of making money in a profit driven healthcare system.

#prostate

(Retired Healthcare Scientist who performed tens of thousands of PSA Tests and the older Acid Phosphatase test over 40 years).

greem

Lads, lads!

("lads" being "people born with & still having a prostate" regardless of current identification)

I'm about to have my 5th round of chemotherapy for advanced metstatic prostate cancer. A close friend has had surgery to remove theirs today, and another friend in the USA had theirs removed on Thursday.

If you are 50+, then FOR THE LOVE OF WHATEVER DEITY YOU DO OR DON'T HAVE please get a PSA test.

Save yourself being in our position.

#cancer#prostate#PleaseBoost
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