New spit test for prostrate cancer...

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I know IABU. I know its brilliant this test may mean more men are tested. My family is all men, im glad this will be possible for them.

BUT....how come men get a spit test and we need to get our boobs out and squished or knickers off legs akimbo and something shoved up there??? When are we getting spit tests for all our stuff???

Its not fair

Having 12 samples removed from your prostate is painful and pretty embarrassing. Time is at a premium these days - so the local anaesthetic usually kicks in a bit later!

Took 2.5 weeks for my dh to recover, peed blood for over 2 weeks and was in terrible pain after the ultrasound. Doesn't make a squeak normally when he's ill but this must've been painful for him to say anything.

I'm not sure the spit test will be very useful anyway. Virtually all men get prostate cancer if they live long enough. They won't necessarily die of it though. The PSA test is probably better at tracking it?

The idea of the spit test is to identify high risk young men.

Prostate cancer in a 40 to 65 Yr old is essentially a completely different disease to that in an 85 Yr old who will die from something else while his prostate cancer sits there quietly.

Yes it can be very aggressive in younger men. Same with cancers in young women of course.