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My understanding was that basically every man will, if they live long enough, have some cancerous cells in their prostate.

The main risk seems to be going from "so slow growing you die of old age first" to "fast enough growing it becomes a problem", unless I am horribly mistaken.

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I worked in a lab that was studying prostate cancer for a summer internship, and most of our samples came from young men who died in motorcycle accidents. They found that a majority of the samples had some presence of benign tumors, but it only really becomes noticeable once malignant tumors develop.

I don't know how representative the samples were of the entire population - one theory was that our young motorcycle samples had significantly higher testosterone on average and were more likely to develop those tumors.

Young, and dead motorcyclists. Young male motorcyclist is the definition of testosterone-fueled lethality. (I grew out of sportbikes after two good friends died.)

The so called balls to brain ratio.

I ride bikes but am low T. For shame.

I'm sorry about your friends. My dad has lost at least one, been hit no fewer than 5 times (none his fault), and gone down one other time (lowsided at Deal's Gap). Miraculously he is still alive. This post probably makes him sound much more reckless than he really is. He is the most cautious person I know, probably due to these experiences.

One pathologist I happen to know, says the chances of finding cancer cells in your prostate is about the same as your age: 50 -> 50% chance, 60 -> 60%.

This is how most doctors I know perceive it as well. I know quite a few doctors since I'm one myself.

agreed, and the headline talks about "link" because such a refined thinking doesn't fit in a headline.

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