Splat
There I was, reading along on the information super highway. It was a nice little article [via the NPCC's email newsletter] about a new study on different treatment plans for prostate cancer. The study said good things about my choice of treatment plans and talked about how nice it is to have a non-invasive option that allows quick return to a normal life with odds equal to surgery. Then you click the little link to page two, and splat comes the reminder: “Overall, just 7% of the men died due to prostate cancer.” All this crap and still a seven percent chance of death (and a twenty percent chance of reoccurrence) over the twelve years in their study period? F that!
My biggest complaint when I was looking at my own options was the lack of long-term information. Most of the studies talk about five years, which can be OK when most diagnosed men over sixty years old, but doesn’t work for me. I’m forty now and the plan is for at least forty more years.
I’m going to go sulk now. Maybe I’ll post about my swim tomorrow.
