My regular readers know the controversies and challenges posed by prostate cancer.  It is very common.  Over half the men who die at advanced age of other causes will have prostate cancer on autopsy.  It is very slow.  From the time that prostate cancer is detectable on biopsy to the time that it causes symptoms or shortens life can be as long as a decade.  It is not very lethal.  Because it tends to affect older men, most men diagnosed with it tend to die of other causes.  Though it does kill t...