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Brent, your post hits very close to home. I am a year older than your Dad, and a Viet Nam vet. My PC diagnosis was made about 18 months ago - no symptoms, but my PSA came back astronomically high. Treatment (radiation and hormone therapy) has been effective so far. My contribution to the thread is for the Viet Nam vets. The VA has listed a large number of cancers, including prostate, that are assumed to have been caused by exposure to Agent Orange, and are therefore entitled to disability compensation and treatment. I learned about the process several months before I was diagnosed, purely by happenstance. The application and examination process was straightforward,; you do not have to prove exposure - our Congress has mandated that it is assumed to be the cause.
Please listen to the advice from the posters above, do not blow this cancer off - it can kill you.
Terry
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