afraid?
shocked?confused?
just don't know?
Vice
President, PCaC-MI
Executive
Director:
Midland Community Cancer Services. She has more than
twenty years experience helping people with cancer. www.cancerservicesmidland.org
First take a deep breath. You have time to learn
listen, read and see this wonderful movie essay
done by a survivor. It has been viewed more than 500,000 times. Click on this link it will take the authors site. Then click on the picture to start the essay.
"I have cancer...but cancer doesn't have me."
You are here because YOU or SOMEBODY you
want to help, have prostate cancer or some related problem. We have
been there - done that!
Let us help you become a SURVIVOR! Let's get started.
What you want to do, or help somebody do is:
Is to work with your doctors to be able make specific and deliberate choices from the options available that have probable outcomes, risks and benefits that support your values and what is important to you and those that care about you.
This disease is your enemy!
Learn all you can about it. Don't give it any breaks. You need to know:
- What
the prostate is.
Where it is and what it is connected to.
What it does.
You need to know what prostate cancer is:
- How it develops.
How it is detected.
How is diagnosed.
What the diagnose means.