# A thread for all the cancer survivors

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**Created:** [June 12, 2025, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-thread-for-all-the-cancer-survivors/1019535 "2025-06-12T17:39:08Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 12, 2025, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-thread-for-all-the-cancer-survivors/1019535/11 "2025-06-12T23:36:02Z")

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I squeak in technically as a Basal cell (skin cancer) survivor. But I’ll post about Dad instead. He’s a prostate cancer survivor, 15 years out or so. I think his Gleason score was 7. He has a lot of scar tissue in that area from past surgeries, and ended up with some nerve damage causing incontinence. He has an artificial sphincter now. But he’s a survivor. PSA basically undetectable.  
I had a [thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-dads-urologist-wants-him-to-come-in-immediately-for-his-biopsy-results/598643/82) about it back in the day.

Now he has MDS, which is kinda a leukemia precursor.

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