Hi Dave

Like others have said, the DRE is really nothing to be concerned about.
Techniques of administering the DRE varies from doctor to doctor.

The first DRE I experienced was from my local doctor who happens to be a
young woman. Neither of us had any problems with the issue.

One thing, though, her slender examining finger in no way prepared me for
the first uro I visited, whose index finger felt like a telegraph pole! This
guy was ROUGH!!!! I could not reconcile to having this hamfisted guy at the
other end of a scapel so I sought a referral to a uro with more delicate
fingers and a precise control.

Jokes aside, the DRE remains one of the more important PCa diagnostic tools.
Many cases of PCa have been initially dxed by DRE alone.

Given a choice of an imagined indignity or developing a spreading PCa, I
know which I would choose.

Think about it.

Ray Walsh