| Prostate cancer is one of the most popular forms of | | | | in his life. However, when he began to feel ill, at the |
| cancer that men experience as they grow older. | | | | urging of his wife, he made an appointment with the |
| There has been some research conducted to | | | | doctor. When the doctor revealed to him that he had |
| suggest that the vast majority of men will | | | | prostate cancer, they immediately began treatment |
| experience prostate cancer at some point in their | | | | to combat it. At first, it seemed as if the doctors |
| lives when they grow older. While there is no real | | | | had caught the cancer early enough that my |
| known cause of prostate cancer, the one known | | | | grandfather would fully recover. However, it was |
| fact is that if caught early on, it is highly treatable. | | | | soon determined that the cancer had metastasized |
| However, statistics reveal that most adult men are | | | | and become terminal. Not wanting any treatment for |
| reluctant to go to the doctor and/or do not take | | | | the cancer, my grandfather kept it a secret that the |
| advantage of regularly scheduled trips to their dentist | | | | treatments had not worked. The family did not know |
| or physician. Perhaps, this is why insurance is usually | | | | that anything else was wrong until the week leading |
| lower for men than it is for women- because they | | | | up to his death where he became so ill that he had |
| never use it! | | | | to be hospitalized. |
| A few years ago, it was discovered that my | | | | Schedule an appointment with your physician. Know |
| grandfather on my mother's side had prostate | | | | what is going on with your body and take care of it. |
| cancer. This was a man who never complained about | | | | After all, you only have one body! |
| anything and never went to the doctor for anything | | | | |