Cancer ~ Alternate Testing

Medical Alternatives to Testing Prostate Cancer

As my Grandma used to say, “there’s more than one way to skin a cat.”

JD's Stories From the Mountain ~
4 min readJun 28, 2024

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Photo by National Cancer Institute on Unsplash

Recently, as many of you are now aware, I was diagnosed with Prostate Cancer. Fun stuff. It shocked the hell out of me, as I had no idea, felt fine, and still feel fine.

This has been truly a learning experience for me. I have had one younger brother and two good friends be diagnosed with cancer. My brother and one friend died. Another is alive and cancer free. This after being told in 2020 he had three to six months to live.

The two who died, a good friend and my younger brother, had tried everything, finally ending with radiation and chemotherapies. The one friend who is alive followed a different protocol, one that I am following. No pharmaceuticals are involved. After four years, he remains cancer free.

Tests for Prostate Cancer

But that’s not what this is about. This is about Prostate Cancer. When it was determined I should have an MRI shortly after an exam, I did so. The MRI showed my prostate covered with cancer.

Next was the biopsy. The biopsy was not pleasant, as one would imagine. Without detail, a very large needle is inserted through the…

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JD's Stories From the Mountain ~

I write non-fiction stories about My Life, My Journey with Prostate Cancer and Spirituality. My location: a mountain top in the Blue Ridge Mts.