yeah good to get people thinking about it Mike, glad you got to yours in time, I should get a check myself being over 50 and having lost friends and relatives to cancer in one form or another frightening when I look back, don't know if you have seen "The Idiot Cycle" programme/film, some clips on youtube about canceragenics around us in all walks of life, some scary stuff

Three years ago I was diagnosed with stage 5 Prostate cancer. Never been so scared in my life. Some how with luck, Radiation and hormone treatments, it seams to have gone away. Once you turn 50 a simpel PSA test, nothing more than a simpel blood test can save your life. (Dont let it hapen to you).

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well said, Mike

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Today is my prep day and procedure tomorrow.

if it's your time, please get checked!

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Don't leave home without it!

Glad you are doing so well.

Cancer is very scary but you have to go after it, all the time.


our family unfortunately knows more about cancer than we ever wanted to.

My wife's family has Lynch II, and it's ripped through almost all of her siblings (one passed at 34 from small intestine cancer and left a wife and 2 kids behind in 96, and two other brothers are colon cancer survivors, and her dad, was a walking study in cancer treatment and survival - stomach, colon, esophagus, spine, skin - you name it, he had it..)

Because of Lynch, my wife was doing all the necessary screening, yet she still had bladder cancer in 09, (at age 47) but she is doing fine now thanks to her will to beat this thing, aggressive treatments, places like Dana Farber in Boston and the wonderful doctors that provided her care. (the reason this slipped through was prior to very recently, bladder cancer was not on the Lynch list... it is now. I think my wife's actual case helped to change the rule books for screening @DFCI. They take the time and work closely with people, it's an awesome place, if you are unfortunate enough to need places like DFCI, just do what you gotta do to GET to them. they exist to cure cancer, the local small town hospitals just don't have the resources)

My son tested positive to the lynch defect a few weeks ago, (he's 32) so he'll be screened, and we are pushing others to get tested, like my daughter and my wife's younger brother and his twin sister who have not yet been tested. Dana Farber is literally waiting for them to call. Stubborn not to have taken advantage of this IMO

I've already had my colon screen as well as the endoscopy etc.. I never miss a checkup or a test. never..

Because it really is all about aggressive screening. It's something you need to get early, and if God forbid, you test positive, treat it aggressively. Don't let the docs dick you around, do not let this disease make the first or next move.

Good luck to you Mike, Please stay healthy.

Thanks Kid and best wishes to you and your family!
Early detection is what saved my life.

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Don't leave home without it!

Mojo from Chicago Mike, please stay healthy!

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I had mine on Friday, that Miralax stuff..........Whoa! Everything is good on my end.

Thanks for te reminder Mike, and best wishes to you.

Major Mojo headed your way

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oogway, kungfu panda 2008

Got my prostate exam earlier this year. An uncomfortable moment I am willing to go through to make sure all is right.

Mike, I remember that thread from long ago. The message is just as good now as then. Thanks.

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Important thread. Thanks for the heads up Mike!
All the best brother!

My dad is a colorectal cancer survivor. Almost had to get a choleostomy, if I spelled it right.
2 surgeries, they cut him open just like a carcass man.

Soon will be my time for a check-up, I´m 42.

Thanks again Mike, awareness is job no. 1!!

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FIGHT!

Print out this thread and hand it to him.

Thanks Mike!

I'm about a year and a half out from surgery, chemo, and rads for throat cancer. By the grace of God it's gone, I lost 50 pounds, and I can still talk and sing. Get yourself checked, and if you notice anything at all untoward anywhere, GO TO THE DOC!

Mine began with a lump on my neck that Mrs. Krashpad noticed.

Thanks to all and yes, try to get not only yourself,
but others who are at the age to get scoped.

My procedure results were fine...I'm good for another
three years.

No cancer, no polyps, no pain!

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Don't leave home without it!

Sweet, glad to hear that Mike.
Now put the worry behind, and jam out.

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oogway, kungfu panda 2008