# So I have prostate cancer

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [December 9, 2017, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-have-prostate-cancer/804035 "2017-12-09T19:11:04Z")\
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> [@LH75](#):
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> Maybe if I was younger he plan would have gone another way

That’s how it was explained to me when I was diagnosed at 55: if I were 20 years older, maybe something else would kill me. At 55, this would definitely kill me so I had to deal with it. I could have done radiation or brachytherapy, or hell, nothing. Surgery seemed most surefire to me, so I chose that. Guess what? The cancer came back and I probably have radiation in my future.

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