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<\/p>\nI want to have a word with all of you in the Iceman community about a touchy subject.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s October now and the time of year when Bell\u2019s Icemania kicks into high gear. Soon it will be November and guys will start growing mustaches and beards for Movember in support of men\u2019s health.<\/p>\n
My father was an alcoholic who died of prostate cancer at the age of 53. By the time they caught it at age 46, his cancer had metastasized to his bones. He battled for seven years before succumbing to the disease.<\/p>\n
Throughout my adult life, I felt that his cancer was a direct result of drinking gallons of Tanqueray and Fresca and that I could avoid it if I led the healthy active lifestyle of a cyclist and imbibed only moderately.<\/p>\n
Imagine my concern this past January when during my annual physical we discovered that my PSA level was 9. \u201cThere must have been some kind of mistake. Let\u2019s check it again\u201d, I thought. Another test came back at 8.3. My primary care physician referred me to a urologist, and I received word that I was positive for an aggressive form of prostate cancer in June (delayed 3 months due to COVID-19). Kikkan Randal\u2019s story of winning an Olympic medal with Jessie Diggans (Nordic skiing team sprint) and discovering breast cancer a month later kept me from denying that it was possible for a healthy person to have cancer.<\/p>\n
I am now recovering from a radical prostatectomy and, so far, everything looks good. I am counting the days until I can ride my bike again (38). Turns out that my cancer was genetically inherited and being a lifelong athlete wasn\u2019t going to change that.<\/p>\n
Don\u2019t put off your annual physical and if it\u2019s been a few years since you\u2019ve seen your doc, get on it now. Friends, don\u2019t let them slide. If they can\u2019t make an appointment on their own, do it for them. This is the year to do it since the Bell\u2019s Iceman is on hiatus and you have some extra time to look after your own health. I know I am glad we\u2019ve addressed my situation before it had a chance to spread.<\/p>\n
Prostate cancer may be a slow growing disease but it\u2019s always better to catch it early. Just ask my father.<\/p>\n
Steve<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I want to have a word with all of you in the Iceman community about a touchy subject. It\u2019s October now and the time of year when Bell\u2019s Icemania kicks into high gear. Soon it will be November and guys will start growing mustaches and beards for Movember in support of men\u2019s health. My father … Continue reading “A Message from Steve Brown”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-steve-brown"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.iceman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.iceman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.iceman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iceman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iceman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iceman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.iceman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iceman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iceman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}