A Prostate-Cancer Survivor Reacts to Joe Biden’s Diagnosis

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Just over four years ago, I heard three words every human being dreads: “You have cancer.”

In my case, it was prostate cancer. I regularly took a prostate-specific antigen (PSA) because prostate cancer seemed to run in my family and this time my annual test produced a higher-than-usual number. So I consulted a urologist, who referred me to lab for an MRI (my first, and I hope my last, since it induced extreme claustrophobia), which showed some mass in my prostate gland.