9d (edited) • Symptoms, & Diagnosis
There is no benefit to waiting to get your PSA checked
Sixteen years ago I did not even know I had a prostate problem. A friend told me in an airport. I had spent years assuming everything was just age.
So I have a soft spot for anything that tells a man when to pay attention.
Read something this week that stuck with me. Researchers in London went through data on more than 400,000 men, asking how often a PSA test picks up a prostate cancer that would never have caused any trouble.
Turns out the answer depends a lot on age. For a man in his 50s that chance is low, around 16%. By 80 it is closer to 58%.
The takeaway they landed on: a man's 50s and early 60s are the best window to test. Not later. Earlier.
Which flips the usual thinking. Most men tell themselves they will deal with it "when they are older." The numbers say the younger years are exactly when the test does the most good and the least harm.
I am not a doctor, and none of this replaces a chat with yours. But it is worth knowing.
Here is my question for the group - if you have had a PSA test, how old were you when you got your first one? And if you have not, what has held you back?
No judgement here. Just curious where everyone sits.
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There is no benefit to waiting to get your PSA checked
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