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Old September 24th 11, 02:35 AM posted to alt.rec.bicycles.recumbent,rec.bicycles.soc
Edward Dolan
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"JimmyMac" wrote in message
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On Sep 21, 10:29 pm, "Edward Dolan" wrote:
[...]
Smaller towns will not have trauma centers. It is either the ER or
nothing.
I am struck by the excellence of the doctors manning the ERs. That seems
to
be their specialty as they remain on that particular job for years and
keep
very odd hours besides.


Understood. That is merely a choice limiting decision based primarily

upon one's geophysical place of residence/. On another note,
revisiting a previous topic of conversation, regarding detection of
prostate cancer via DRE and/or PSA, one study found that in men 40-50
years of age, tumors detected at time of autopsy were 40% whereas
tumors detected clinically (read DRE/PSA) in the same age group of the
living was mere 1"% ... not very encouraging now is it?

The doctors at the VA insisted on a biopsy because of my high PSA test. It
was an in-office procedure and is definitive. But alas, most men never get
to the biopsy point until too late because the PSA test is usually all over
the map. The DRE is pretty worthless. You have to catch prostate cancer
before the physical tumor stage, i.e., before it has spread.

I read every day about men, many not so old, who are still dying of prostate
cancer. The trick is to catch it early before it has spread. Every man over
the age of 50 should be getting the PSA test every year even though it isn't
totally reliable.

Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota
aka
Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota





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