Editor’s Note: Ed Manning is a media executive and prostate cancer survivor.
In the blink of a news cycle, prostate cancer was again casually swept aside as among the best cancer to have.
As a prostate cancer survivor, I can report from painful experience that those misguided assessments are to men’s health and longevity what ice was to the Titanic.
As the American Cancer Society notes:• Prostate cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in men.
A biopsy confirmed somewhat aggressive prostate cancer, a diagnosis which stunned and terrified me.
Persons:
Ed Manning, Lloyd Austin, Dr, Martin Luther King Jr’s, Dexter, Simpson, ”, “, it’s
Organizations:
CNN, Houston, American Cancer Society, PSA, National Cancer Institute
Locations:
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