it is an aggressive form, which Biden's cancer is said to be and that Leo (our friend/neighbor) died from. The aggressive type that rapidly spreads to bone and other organs is not at all the same animal as a typical, slow growing prostate cancer that stays where it is. It is incurable and if it is not treated it will radically spread and it will be quite unpleasant, as Leo sadly experienced.

Yes, the slow growing, "polite" variation is where there are choices to be made because the "cure" can be worse than the disease and quite unnecessary to treat in many cases.

In the aggressive form, the disease is most definitely FAR worse than the cure.