Here's the point...

I received an email today from a friend who wrote:

"I keep pushing my Buddy, XXXXXX, to do something(Laser, Seeds or
Surgery) with his; but he is avoiding the Issue!!!"

I responded with a story of someone I know who took the same approach and ultimately lost what became a battle for his life. Of course, I also reported the gentleman I spoke with who has been monitoring his prostate cancer for eight or nine years and is doing just fine.

But with so many treatment options and such positive outcomes for each...why the hesitance?

Perhaps it is avoidance as my friend suggests. Doing nothing does take less time (duh), and there are no side effects (unless you consider potential death a side effect).

I did not have to choose surgery, and I did not have to have surgery so soon after being diagnosed. On the other hand, I am recovering quickly with improvements every day, and I can easily see the time in the not too distant future when the minor inconveniences I have endured will be only memories.

Surgery and radiation are indeed barbaric solutions to prostate cancer, but they are effective, survivable, and available now. Complications can, in all most all cases, be mitigated.

I understand anyone's hesitance and concern (or fear), but I would do it again in a heartbeat if I had it to do over again. I'm free of prostate cancer and I will be running again in a few weeks...what's not to like about that?

For God's sake...more importantly, for your family's sake and your own...do something, and do it today.