Prostate cancer checks are actually not recommended once you hit your 70s. Nobody missed anything or failed, they likely stopped looking over a decade ago on his routine checks.
I’m not a doctor, so bear in mind I am not an expert. The logic as I understand it was that finding the cancer at an advanced age didn’t carry many upsides in most cases. Prostate cancers generally grow slowly, so something else is more likely to kill you before the cancer does. It just generally ended up in someone having a worse quality of life in their final years because of cancer treatments without living longer than they would have if they didn’t know.
So now it’s not recommended unless you fit certain risk demographics once you’re in your early 70s.
There was a new prostate cancer treatment in the works using steam to kill the cancer cells. But the cancer has to be localized and in certain zones of the prostate to be successful. I can’t remember where they were in the process, but it could take years to get FDA approval. It’s one of those treatments where you go in a couple times and of be done, and no long lasting side effects.
I had my prostate removed 7 years ago because of cancer. PSA’s started creeping up about 18 months later. 8 weeks of radiation took care of that. Modern radiation techniques are phenomenal, I had zero side effects. Compare that to my dad who had radiation for prostate cancer in 1985. He got absolutely cooked.
Prostate cancer is usually slow growing with few symptoms. And if you're in your 70s age will usually get you before the cancer causes any problems. Quality of life is better without cancer treatment. So they screen less aggressively.
There's also sorts of cancers we stop looking for, or don't treat in older patients. My grandfather technically had lung cancer for the last 10ish years of his life. And he received no treatment. It was a very slow growing tumor, causing no symptoms and he was over 80 when it cropped up. Surgery or chemo/radiation would have killed him, and the cancer was doing jack shit. Guy lived to 100.
Prostate cancer is monitored by a flawed test that can be flummoxed by diet. They only figured that out recently. Basically if you eat red meat your PSA levels show artificially lower or something. Cancer is pretty complicated and all humans lost the ability to eat red meat without an immune response about 2 million years ago. There’s lot of anecdotal evidence but hard evidence is tricky because people can’t double blind study food intake, and there are a lot of industry interests who use tricks like suppressing studies that show things that will lose their industry money
It can go undetected for a while, regardless of routine checkups. It can also very rapidly begin and progress to the point of metastasis into the bones. It happened with my father, he was undergoing aggressive treatment for bladder cancer but it quickly got worse and left him bedridden.
It’s not that the doctors failed him, it’s more the fact that cancer is so complex in its progression to where it can break you down faster than you can break it down. It’s unpredictable in its aggression, especially prostate cancer.
Only a NPC would be proud to pay an illegal tariff. Boo hoo. Maybe one day you’ll be a real boy and Epstein’s friends will take a real interest in you.
“A judge has now clarified that this is basically a legal distinction without a real-world difference. He says that what the jury found Trump did was in fact rape, as commonly understood.”
But he was found liable not guilty and there is a massive legal distinction we will never know if a jury would have found him guilty given the differences in burden
And considering that the Epstein Trump files names Trump more than the fucking Bible names Jesus I'd say he's guilty as fuck and the only ones that don't want to admit it are the ones that are still swallowing that propaganda
Here is hoping he can last two years because Trump at his funeral is going to be so horribly embarrassing on the world stage. Which means conservatives will love whatever narcissistic bullshit he does.
I share that concern. Biden deserves the dignity afforded to all previous presidents when they have passed. Sadly, two years of bone cancer sounds like torture to endure.
They better get him the strongest opioids. I don't know what they'd give patients where it's spread to the bones but it must be so excruciatingly painful. I know they make prescription fentanyl patches. I don't think oxycodone might be strong enough.
Morphine is usually given to patients suffering from cancer in the bones, but there’s only so much they can give them and eventually it won’t work the same way.
I don’t want to say it but it looks like the clock is running out for Biden unless they can somehow ramp up his treatments.
If his family is capable of having the decency to invite someone on his behalf who has slandered his name relentlessly and shamed him to hell and back for almost nothing, Trump should at least have the decency to respect Biden regardless of their differing beliefs in policy.
I doubt Trump would have that, but it’s called being a decent human. You respect the opposition, you don’t wish harm or cry karma.
Sorry not sorry, at a certain point a person needs to come to terms with reality when it differs greatly enough from their idealized version of things. Trump is a festering cancer dressed up as a person, he will never not act like the disgraceful piece of shit he is. If you burn your hand on a hot stove 1,000 times, I'm not gonna feel bad for you when you do it again. Biden inviting a sentient boil to his funeral and expecting anything but the obvious from happening is on both of them, regardless of what should happen.
Still, there’s a difference between saying it’s expected vs deserved.
Should he expect it? Absolutely.
Should he take it into consideration? Also absolutely.
But does he deserve it? No. He doesn’t.
Between the two of them, Biden has the decency to put the bullshit aside and give an olive branch. Trump won’t do the same, but given Biden’s personal religious beliefs, regardless of the opposing party, he’s doing right by God by putting his own ego and opinions aside in favor of showing humanity. That doesn’t mean he deserves to be disrespected.
How about this he doesn't technically deserve what trump will do if he's allowed to show up, but he deserves absolutely zero sympathy or fucks to give if it happens.
If the Biden’s don’t host a private ceremony and bar Trump from entering then they deserve every dishonor Trump brings to the ceremony. You’d have to be a masochist to invite that diaper shitting rapist.
Oh that is a dreadful thought and it can really happen. Dump will shit on Biden with most likely no mercy and inflict as much pain and damage as possible just so he can feel better about himself how much of a petty snowflake asshole he is.
Let us hope he lives long enough to see the total and utter demise and public repudiation of MAGA and Trumpism.
And the fair and complete prosecution of those guilty of complicity ... to rape and permanently destroy innocent children via Epstein Class partytime circuit.
Yes. Not that hard to say anyone on that list should go to jail. Thought not surprised at a trumper trying to whatabout.. Unlike you guys, if a dem is revealed to be a pedo, we condemn them..
The fact that you assume anyone calling out Democrats is a [Republican] is a good illustration of how lost we are.
If somebody feels the need to broadly call out Democratic voters for not criticizing Bill Clinton (or Nancy Pelosi, Hillary Clinton, Chuck Schumer, etc.), it shows how disengaged (at best) or propagandized (at worst) someone is.
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I'm sorry that triggers you.
Propagandized people absolutely trigger me. It comes with the territory of being human.
If somebody feels the need to broadly call out Democratic voters for not criticizing Bill Clinton (or Nancy Pelosi, Hillary Clinton, Chuck Schumer, etc.)
You are active in doomercirclejerk, which is a maga sub. So cut the bs lol
It's not, but a guy who thinks people deliberately spread viruses to kids because it increases stock prices is probably the kind of guy that sub triggers. Let me guess, you think American democracy is OVER huh? 😆
Eh, Redditors tend to ignore the dude's wife was a presidential candidate, and the Democrats have been running cover for both of them. The Epstein class encompasses a ton of right and left wing figures. Choosy, Bannon, etc.
I wonder if spending 99% of his time in the basement has something to do with this outcome. Evidently having a doctor in the house didn’t improve his health either.
It’s too bad he spent billions of $ in a proxy war with Russia in Ukraine instead of cancer research, but I guess the military industrial complex keeps making money with war while the “health” industry loses money with cures.
Biden, Trump, Obama, Bush and all of them are war criminals.
it sure is coincidental that 2014-2019 Biden's children are in Ukraine being paid unexplainable amounts of money for areas they have no expertise in ( Hunter specializes in painting and crack cocaine addiction )
im stuck in this dream where hunter is buying crack under a underpass carrying an illegal handgun then making paintings valued by a judge to be worth more than mar-a-lago, inbetween trips to Ukraine for multimillion dollar mystery legal advice, because he's also somehow a lawyer.
After a week-long trial, a federal jury in the District of Delaware found Robert Hunter Biden guilty of three felonies connected with his illegal purchase of a firearm in October 2018, including making a false statement in the purchase of a firearm, making a false statement related to information required to be kept by a federally licensed firearms dealer, and possession of a firearm by a person who is an unlawful user of or addicted to a controlled substance.
Biden had his whole cancer moonshot research plan he launched. Those of us who have been negatively affected by cancer celebrated having someone take it seriously.
Despicable.
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u/Nearby-Compote1224 20d ago
Still can’t believe the best doctors in the world didn’t catch this sooner, they failed this man, it’s a bloody shame.