‘We have to talk about it’: After prostate cancer diagnosis, man urges others to get screened

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‘We have to talk about it’: After prostate cancer diagnosis, man urges others to get screened
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'When someone says you have cancer you don’t hear anything else after that,' Tony Hillery told TODAY.

. He lost 52 pounds and watched his blood pressure, cholesterol and fatty liver all improve.

“I was watching my PSA levels just kick upward by points … three years in a row,” he explained. “I brought it up to my doctor, who told me that at my age it’s normal to fluctuate. But fluctuation means up and down — this is just going up.” According to the American Cancer Society, about 1 in 8 men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer in their lifetime. Prostate cancer is more common among older men and risk rises after age 50.

“Higher mortality is more troubling and that higher mortality discussion is tied to more than one thing,” Tewari said. “Partially, it could be because of increased aggressiveness of the cancer but I have a feeling it also has a major underpinning of when they present .”

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