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Here is my story -
Every year more than 200,000 American men are told they have
prostate cancer and 50,000 of these men will die needlessly from this
disease. Prostate cancer is the male equivalent of breast cancer in
women. One in five men will develop prostate cancer in their lifetime.
Most men are only vaguely aware of the disease, its treatment and its
consequences. Unlike women, who usually talk freely among themselves
about intimate health problems, such as breast cancer, most men shy
away from exchanging information about any of their physical
disorders, let alone problems involving the prostate gland, which
could possibly affect their uninary flow, and mess up their sex life.
DIAGNOSIS
I began to have some urinary problems back in 1987, frequent trips
to the bathroom and some bladder leakage. I was referred to a
Urologist and had the Cystoscopy procedure. He diagnosed me with
prostatitis. In 1992 my first PSA was 2.0. In 1993 when my PSA went
to 3.9, I had the ultrasound and was diagnosed with Benign
Prostate Hypertrophy (BPH), a non-malignancy.
In 1994, my PSA went to 4.2 and this time I had the ultrasound plus the biopsy, resulting in another diagnosis
of BPH. In 1995 my PSA sent down to 3.7.
On July 31, 1996, I was 62 years old when I was diagnosed
with prostate cancer. During this time of discovery, I found out my PSA was a 6, my Gleason score was a 6, and
my Staging score was T2C. On that fateful day, Dr. Peter Carey,
my new Urologist called me with the dreadful results from a
recent ultrasound/biopsy. He advised me the cancer was localized and I would have 2 choices of treatment,
surgery or radiation. From that moment on, I began to be like everyone else who had just found out he had
prostate cancer (PC), I was devastated.
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