Famous Folk who succumbed to PCa

My PCP was conscientious about doing the PSA test annually after I reached 50. Eventually, the number started to rise, and he began telling me to see a urologist. I was convinced I would never develop cancer, so I ignored him as the number went into the 3's, then the 4's, then the 5's. When it reached 6.2 he told me in no uncertain terms that I absolutely needed to see a urologist. The urologist found a palpable tumor and did an ultrasound in his office. The cancer diagnosis was confirmed by biopsy, and I was extremely fortunate that surgery found it to still be contained, Gleason 3 + 4, primarily on one side where the tumor could be felt, but also on the other side as well. I'm a lucky guy who behaved pretty stupidly for a number of years. That was nine years ago, and so far I remain undetectable. What a strange and unpredictable disease. That doctor, since retired, and the PSA test probably saved my life, though I know that every time one of us makes that claims, some rise up to say "not true."

Sorry guys a serial killer isn't a famous person in my book, I'll leave it at that so not to close down the post! What I did find interesting was the age of so many of these guys mentioned. Would be interesting if somewhere out there if there was an actual study where it showed the average age where guys passed away from actual PCA? Larry

Skypilot56 said:

"Would be interesting if somewhere out there if there was an actual study where it showed the average age where guys passed away from actual PCA?"

That is, a graph plotting number-of-PCa-deaths against age-at-time-of-death.

Of course such a graph had to be out there, and an example of one which I found is linked below.

Since the graph is titled "Prostate Cancer Mortality Statistics," I assume the deaths indicated are indeed specifically from PCa, and not cases where subjects had PCa, but actually died from something else.

https://www.bing.com/images/search?view=detailv2&id=8a3d974552ef183fd76b82ca0014a07a9bde0c60&thid=oip.7uvi3y5oiojtlwwy9ler_ahaey&mediaurl=http%3a%2F%2Fwww.cancerresearchuk.org%2Fsites%2Fdefault%2Ffiles%2Fcstream-node%2Fdeaths_crude_prostate_m14.png&exph=420&expw=650&q=prostate+cancer+death+rates&selectedindex=6&ajaxhist=0&vt=0&eim=1,2,6

BTW, the above graph is a subpage of a page which presents an absolute treasure trove of graphical statistical data re PCa. Here is that master page (and note the links at top of screen to its subpages):

https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=prostate+cancer+death+age+graph&qpvt=prostate+cancer+death+age+graph&form=igre