Yes I know this is an oral cancer board, but someone else brought this up so I want to comment on it. This may or may not be of interest to the guys out there, and the issue of prostate cancer, which is way common in the elderly. Patients frequently outlive the disease and die of something else age related before the cancer because in the most common type it moves very slowly. (The other will take you down like a linebacker before you know it, so don't accept generalizations about what you have.) But the issue of the ability to get an erection after surgery may be changing soon, and no one is happier about that than yours truly. OK, let's get all the jokes out of the way first. Who cares if a 75-85 year old guy can "sport wood", still has "lead in his pencil," etc? ME, cause sex is one of the great joys of life and my idol in this respect is an 84 year old friend, who recently got remarried after being a widower for a decade. He told me in private that the sex was great. I almost fell over at the thought

Brian, stage 4 oral cancer survivor. OCF Founder and Director. The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.