alt Hacker News> live as long as you would expect them to
We also need to think about quality of life, which tends to go way down after you're diagnosed with one of these diseases
Prevention and delay is significantly better than management or even curing
> live as long as you would expect them to
We also need to think about quality of life, which tends to go way down after you're diagnosed with one of these diseases
Prevention and delay is significantly better than management or even curing
For the majority treatment is pretty minor, which is reflected in all-cause mortality. Pill-based chemo is much more common now and patients do not need to relocate and isolate as much. Cancer is still terrifying, and in almost all other types of cancer people vastly underestimate the life impact of "survival". Young people with localized Hodgkin lymphoma have a ~90% chance that they will never have a recurrence, but the chemo (which is extremely well tolerated!) can still regularly be life-altering.
That said prostate cancer is most of the time not a big deal. Getting prostate cancer will still probably the most dangerous thing that ever happens to you (how many single events have a 5%+ mortality rate? besides birth) and should be treated incredibly seriously, but the odds are still good you'll be fine.