[BillA]

I will reiterate Mikes encouragement about annual PSA's and digital exams. When you know in time prostate cancer is treatable. What you don't know can kill you.

I got "too busy" to go for annual checkups until I began to have urinary tract trouble. I knew it had been a "while" since I had had PSA and digital exams, but when I called my urologist for an appointment I was shocked to learn that it had been nearly three years. PSA came back 25+, virtually off the scale. Immediately went in for biopsey and then sweated bullets waiting for results and thinking how dumb could I have been to let that simple test slip by for so long and if I had cancer had it progressed to terminal dimensions because of my inattentiveness.

Fortunately, no cancer was found and the high PSA was determined to be the result of an infection of the prostate. After a round of anti-biotics PSA dropped back to a reasonable range. You can bet I will never get too busy for these exams again.

Like Mike said Git-er-done and regularly.