I’ve been munching on a variety of them for years now, though habaneros (my preference) are not all that conducive to munching.
Still, one does what one can…

Well, Cicero, you just made my day. I guess I should check myself into hospice soon.

Yes, I think the death rates have gone down.

But I cited those figures anyway to make a point about relative ages at death between breast cancer and prostate cancer. I don’t think that’s changed.

physicsguy writes, “where for my case a cystectomy can be [curative, I presume he means] in the 90s.” Cystectomy is for cancer of the bladder, and a partial one is much easier to live with than a total cystectomy, which requires a neo-bladder be constructed out of a segment of small bowel. Total cystectomy is done for (not-infrequent) multifocal simultaneous cancers of the bladder, which arise since urine washes the entire bladder surface with carcinogen(s). A 90 % cure rate for bladder cancer is a rather optimistic figure.
If I had to choose, I’d go for prostate over bladder. And at my age, there is an 80% probability I do have it.

I wonder how much those stats have changed since 2013. A lot has happened since then. In particular genetic mapping of the cancer with targeted therapy. My urological oncologist/ surgeon and I discussed this opition. His argument is that at present the cure rate is 25%, where for my case a cystectomy can be in the 90s. He did say that even that 25 percentage is a big jump and the therapy is looking like a “game changer”.

I wrote this post in 2013 comparing breast cancer statistics to prostate cancer statistics. Please take a look. The gist of it is that the demographics in terms of age are very very different and breast cancer kills a lot more young people. Here’s a quote [the figures are the ones available in 2013, when I wrote the post]:

Take a look at the statistics and you’ll see the magnitude of the differences I’m talking about. Here are the figures for prostate cancer:

From 2006-2010, the median age at death for cancer of the prostate was 80 years of age. Approximately 0.0% died under age 20; 0.0% between 20 and 34; 0.1% between 35 and 44; 1.6% between 45 and 54; 8.3% between 55 and 64; 20.0% between 65 and 74; 37.6% between 75 and 84; and 32.5% 85+ years of age.

The age-adjusted death rate was 23.0 per 100,000 men per year.

And here are the figures for breast cancer:

From 2006-2010, the median age at death for cancer of the breast was 68 years of age. Approximately 0.0% died under age 20; 0.9% between 20 and 34; 5.3% between 35 and 44; 14.6% between 45 and 54; 21.6% between 55 and 64; 20.2% between 65 and 74; 21.5% between 75 and 84; and 15.9% 85+ years of age.

The age-adjusted death rate was 22.6 per 100,000 women per year.