Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/02/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Feb 8, 2012, at 9:39 PM, Sonny Carter wrote: > On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 10:59 PM, Steve Barbour <steve.barbour at > gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> >> well put Sonny and so true.... especially where the disease is found in >> 40% of men, but kills maybe 1 %. >> >> and >> >> >> This is precisely the dilemma, >> >> Steve > > > Centers for Disease Control has the figures for people who died. Hard > to correlate those who were treated and did not die because they were. > They don't give figures for people who were successfully treated > with chemo/hormone and radiation therapy. I guess they are available, > but it is getting late in Louisiana. > > When I die, causes will pretty sure not be prostate cancer, because, > for all practical purposes I don't have one anymore. > > That sure skews your 1% figure. If conservatively, 200,000 men had > successful treatment in some form, and I'll bet the figure is higher, > the question certainly changes. > > Another issue, of course, is how many men started with relatively > benign prostate cancer, and had it spread beyond? > > Aggressive cancer can move pretty rapidly to lymph glands and onward > to bones, and, there you go. > > > Overheard in autopsy: > "He died of a heart attack while being treated for multiple myeloma; > oh, look! he seemed to also have prostate cancer." > > > Mortality > > Number of deaths from prostate cancer: 28,088 > Deaths per 100,000 males from prostate cancer: 18.5 > > Hospital inpatient care > > Number of prostatectomy procedures: 158,000 additional answers to questions here.... http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=prostate-cancer-screening-and-treatments Steve > > > > Regards, > > Sonny > http://sonc.com/look/ > Natchitoches, Louisiana > > USA > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information