Experimental blood test detects cancer up to four years before symptoms appear

Re:Experimental blood test detects cancer up to four years b... by pintxo on Wednesday July 22, 2020 @07:51AM (#23915978)

Surgery, done by good surgeons, has low (single digit) complication rates.

Tip: Ask your surgeon how often he does this specific surgery. Removing the prostate requires foremost experience to not severe any nerves surrounding the organ, which are important for potency and continence.

As you would not want your cars brake firmware to be written by someone who usually writes marketing apps, you do not want to get this surgery from anyone who has not specialized on it. There are specialists who do this surgery >200 times a year.

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Re:Experimental blood test detects cancer up to four years b... by raducu on Wednesday July 22, 2020 @02:58PM (#23920370)

I'm in my mid thirties, I'll look into PSA, and my father has prostatitis, but no family history of prostate cancer(my grandfather died 86 years old, but lived a much healthier life than me or my father).

So I'll definitely keep it under observation, I just hope those percentages will improve in the next decades.

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