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there) should be the treatment. I started the shots in December and just had my first CyberKnife radia- tion. I feel very lucky that we have a CyberKnife in our local hospital, so I do not have to live somewhere else for the 28-day treatment regimen. Why am I writing? Well, we found that, once you turn 70, a PSA test is no longer recommended, and in fact, my urologist told me he’d received a communication saying a provider could be fined for re- questing one. I asked him how long I’d had this going on, and he said, “Probably about two years.” That means, if I’d been getting
the PSA test each year, we could have caught this much earlier and my odds would be much better than the two out of three that the on- cologist gives me now. My last PSA, when I was 69, was 0.6. So, the lesson in all this is, if you
are over 70, insist that a PSA be in- cluded in your yearly blood work. It could very well be that my wife saved my life. And remember, I had then, and still have now, no symp- toms that would alert me to some- thing being wrong. Can I emphasize that any more strongly? — Col. Nicholas E. Grynkewich Jr., USAF (Ret)
Life Member, Golden Isles Chapter Saint Simons Island, Ga.
Correction: On the chart accompa- nying “TRICARE Choices” (Rapid Fire, March 2016), the Office Visit Copayment for TRICARE Standard should have been identified as “20 percent of negotiated fee.” A corrected chart is available on
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