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An end to all this prostate trouble?

The prostate gland causes entirely too many problems. In the US, prostate cancer kills about one man of every forty.

There’s so much “well, everything is a complicated combination of genes, biomolecules, biopsychosocial stressors and immune modulators that we may never really understand” going on in medicine today that it would be super gratifying if this one mysterious disease turned out to just be plumbing going in the wrong direction. Or do they think that it would end up like Zamboni’s MS cure, with hundreds of thousands of dollars wasted, dozens of unnecessary surgeries performed, and nothing to show but yet another fringe medical idea that sounded good at the time? The two main sources of dynamic behavior (pulsations or fluctuations rather than constant flows and pressures) have already been mentioned: one is the right atrium, alternately accepting inflow then contracting in the heartbeat, its input valve slamming shut to prevent backflow.

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