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Originally Posted by chalupacollects
Passed due to prostate cancer. Get checked men….
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As someone who does medical research for a living, and who often deals with prostate cancer patient data, I'd like to loudly echo this advice. Prostate cancer is generally very treatable, though not without risks, and it is typically easy to detect in earlier stages. If you are getting up there in age, you should be getting your PSA (prostate-specific antigen, not the grading company) levels checked. They are an excellent biomarker for prostate cancer.
Sadly, there has been an uptick in more advanced stages of prostate cancer due to the pandemic, as people avoided their usual checkups out of fear of contracting covid.