I was taking tamsulosin, but it really didn't work. Ended up with a
thing called TURP (you can look it up, but it's basically a roto-rooter
on your prostate). You get a free biopsy with the procedure, and I was
clear.
bp
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On 5/22/2025 7:12 PM, Chuck McCown wrote:
Just took a blood test, no results yet.
If I miss one day of tamsulosin I can’t piss well. Reminds me of Tom
Hanks in The Green Mile.
*From:*AF [mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Ken Hohhof
*Sent:* Thursday, May 22, 2025 11:19 AM
*To:* 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group' <[email protected]>
*Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Scott Adams -Dilbert
My personal belief is that most men over 50 have prostrate cancer,
what matters is how aggressive it is. For awhile the medical
profession went crazy with PSA tests. Based solely on a blood test,
they would offer you the choice of surgery or radiation.
Bill is exactly correct. If you are diagnosed with non aggressive
prostrate cancer at age 75, something else is likely to kill you
first. Let’s face it, we’re all going to die of SOMETHING. Or maybe
they just say “natural causes”. Go back far enough and they just
didn’t talk about cancer, it was taboo, so someone died but it wasn’t
cancer because they wouldn’t say the word.
It’s like the supposed “epidemic” of autism. More like better and
earlier diagnosis.
*From:*AF <[email protected]> *On Behalf Of *Bill Prince
*Sent:* Thursday, May 22, 2025 11:36 AM
*To:* [email protected]
*Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Scott Adams -Dilbert
Certain cancer rates for younger folks are up (e.g. colon cancer).
That one's a mystery.
However, longer life expectancy increases the odds of cancer later in
life too.
There is also better screening, so that is an unknown in terms of what
the actual "rate" is.
We had a friend who was diagnosed with prostate cancer when he was
around 75. Doc told us, the prostate cancer was not going to kill him.
Sure enough, he died almost 20 years later at the ripe old age of 94,
and no, the prostate cancer is not what got him in the end.
bp
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On 5/22/2025 8:56 AM, Dev wrote:
Is it just me or does it seem like cancer rates are rising? You’d
think with enough smart people in enough rooms, we’d have solved
this by now.
On May 22, 2025, at 6:24 AM, Cameron Crum
<[email protected]> <mailto:[email protected]> wrote:
I know I'm not the only Dilbert fan in the group, but this is
kind of sad.
Scott Adams, the creator of the "Dilbert" comic strip,
announced on May 19, 2025, that he has metastatic prostate
cancer that has spread to his bones. He stated that he expects
to live only "months" and "sometime this summer," and that he
is in constant, "intolerable" pain, requiring a walker to move
around.
Adams revealed his diagnosis on his YouTube show, "Real Coffee
With Scott Adams," after former President Joe Biden's office
announced that Biden also had prostate cancer. Adams said he
decided to share his own health news to "slide under" Biden's
announcement and deflect some of the public attention. He also
mentioned that he had been keeping his diagnosis private to
avoid becoming "just the dying cancer guy."
He stated that he has had time to process the diagnosis, get
his affairs in order, and say his goodbyes. As a California
resident, he also referred to the state's End of Life Option
Act as "an option."
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