Prostate Cancer: Ron Brown's Story - KDRV

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think about prostate cancer has changed dramatically in recent years. this is what one well known rogue valley resident recently found at the time when they were ready to start treatment, it was up to 12. all of a sudden it had gone up to six and it had doubled again in 6 months up to 12. and so it was obvious something was happening and it wasn't going back down, it was going up. and so that's when they did the biopsy." a doctors test confirmed the worst. he did a biopsy and took 12 samples, tissue samples and every one of them was positive for cancer. and indicated it was starting to spread to the lymph nodes." and those numbers that indicated something was going on? 1 th ey're called a psa. i asked dr. kadi ann bryan with rogue valley urology about them. psa stands for prostate specific antigen. it is made by theprostate. and it can be elevated in a certain number of 3 scenarios. one of those is prostate cancer. it's more common than you might think. everybody. i talked.. there are so many people, so many guys that g i know of who have it or their father had it or something like that. it's just pervasive. and the numbers support this. "it is the most common cancer diagnosis that we see. and currently it's the second most common cause of death in men in the united states. ron considers himself lucky because he was being l checked regularly. now he's undergoing androgen deprivation therapy. in short, medications are lowering his testosterone and keeping the cancer from absorbing it. and it has worked to nearly elimnate his symptoms. the swelling has been reduced and all of that sort of thing so all of those symptoms that were giving me so much pain and discomfort before seem to have pretty much gone away." he wants to encourage others to get checked. "almost 30 thousand men die every year from prostate cancer. they die of a disease that is very curable. if we identify cancer in g the early stage when it's simply confined to the prostate, the cure rates are very very high." ijust think there are a lot of people who don't think it can happen to them. and it can be serious if you don't stay on it, if you don't treat it." and as you heard, it's all about that early diagnosis. at providence medford medical center, mike duffy, newswatch 12." all november long.... newswatch

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