CANCER, WHICH HAS SPREAD TO HIS LYMPH NODES. I’M QUITE CONVINCED IT WILL BE CONTROLLED, MAYBE EVEN CURED. BUT IF I’D GOTTEN A PSA MUCH EARLIER, IT WOULD BE MUCH MORE SIMPLE, THE TREATMENT MUCH EASIER. THE TREATMENT? YEAH. PSA ARE BLOOD TESTS TO SCREEN FOR PROSTATE CANCER. DOCTOR TIM IS 89 YEARS OLD, AND HE SAYS THE DIAGNOSIS CAME AS A SHOCK TO HIM, ESPECIALLY BECAUSE CURRENT GUIDELINES RECOMMEND AGAINST MEN BEING SCREENED AFTER THEY TURN 70. IF YOU’RE OVER 70 BUT YOU’RE HEALTHY, YOUR MIND IS INTACT. GET A YEARLY PSA FOR A WHILE, AND IF THEY STAY LOW, MAYBE EVERY TWO YEARS, MAYBE EVERY THREE YEARS. BUT DON’T WAIT 14 YEARS LIKE I DID. YEAH, PROSTATE CANCER IS THE MOST COMMON CANCER IN MEN, AS WELL AS THE SECOND LEADING CAUSE OF CANCER RELATED DEATHS IN MEN. WE’VE HAD THE PLEASURE OF SEEING DOCTOR TIM IN OUR NEWSROOM
Longtime WCVB and ABC Information medical editor Dr. Timothy Johnson revealed Wednesday he’s battling prostate most cancers. On Wednesday’s “Good Morning America,” Johnson, 89, stated the analysis got here after a prostate-specific antigen, or PSA, take a look at throughout his annual examination. “In my final Medicare annual examination, I walked within the door and stated to my physician, a buddy, ‘Let’s throw in a PSA only for the heck of it.’ And it got here again 13.7, which is far larger than it needs to be,” Johnson stated. “I used to be surprised. I used to be completely shocked.”Prostate most cancers is the most typical most cancers in males, excluding pores and skin most cancers, and a number one explanation for most cancers loss of life for males within the U.S., second solely to lung most cancers. Johnson stated his most cancers has unfold to his lymph nodes, however is optimistic. “I am fairly satisfied it is going to be managed, possibly even cured. But when I had gotten a PSA a lot earlier, it will be way more easy. The remedy a lot simpler,” he stated. No acknowledged medical societies suggest PSA assessments for males older than 70 – one thing Johnson stated may have caught his most cancers earlier. “Presumably, I might have seen it creeping up yr to yr, and that may have triggered some assessments to see if there was most cancers there and if there was most cancers that was inflicting the upper PSA, we’d have handled it very merely,” he stated. “However now, as a result of it is extra superior, we’ve to do some anti-androgen remedy, anti-testosterone remedy after which in all probability some radiation.”Identified affectionately as “America’s Physician,” Johnson urged males older than 70 to proceed to get their PSA examined. “In the event you’re over 70 however you are wholesome, your thoughts is undamaged, get a yearly PSA for some time. And in the event that they keep low, possibly each two years, possibly each three years,” he stated. “However do not wait 14 years like I did.”Johnson retired from ABC NEWS in 2010, and retired from WCVB-TV in 2012.
Longtime WCVB and ABC Information medical editor Dr. Timothy Johnson revealed Wednesday he’s battling prostate most cancers.
On Wednesday’s “Good Morning America,” Johnson, 89, stated the analysis got here after a prostate-specific antigen, or PSA, take a look at throughout his annual examination.
“In my final Medicare annual examination, I walked within the door and stated to my physician, a buddy, ‘Let’s throw in a PSA only for the heck of it.’ And it got here again 13.7, which is far larger than it needs to be,” Johnson stated. “I used to be surprised. I used to be completely shocked.”
Prostate most cancers is the most typical most cancers in males, excluding pores and skin most cancers, and a number one explanation for most cancers loss of life for males within the U.S., second solely to lung most cancers.
Johnson stated his most cancers has unfold to his lymph nodes, however is optimistic.
“I am fairly satisfied it is going to be managed, possibly even cured. But when I had gotten a PSA a lot earlier, it will be way more easy. The remedy a lot simpler,” he stated.
No acknowledged medical societies suggest PSA assessments for males older than 70 – one thing Johnson stated may have caught his most cancers earlier.
“Presumably, I might have seen it creeping up yr to yr, and that may have triggered some assessments to see if there was most cancers there and if there was most cancers that was inflicting the upper PSA, we’d have handled it very merely,” he stated. “However now, as a result of it is extra superior, we’ve to do some anti-androgen remedy, anti-testosterone remedy after which in all probability some radiation.”
Identified affectionately as “America’s Physician,” Johnson urged males older than 70 to proceed to get their PSA examined.
“In the event you’re over 70 however you are wholesome, your thoughts is undamaged, get a yearly PSA for some time. And in the event that they keep low, possibly each two years, possibly each three years,” he stated. “However do not wait 14 years like I did.”
Johnson retired from ABC NEWS in 2010, and retired from WCVB-TV in 2012.
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