finding anyone.
Without anyone to speak up about prostate cancer, he decided to share his own story. His childhood friend, Michael Crowe, was shocked to learn he had prostate cancer, but it prompted him to take charge of his own health.
“He was very serious. It was a bit of a shock, but then I just thought, I’ve got to get my own life in order,” Crowe says.
The dad of six was inspired to discuss prostate cancer with his own doctor, who encouraged him to get it checked out. From there he began getting routine prostate exams.
During one of Crowe’s routine prostate biopsies, potentially cancerous cells were detected.
“I thought I was a hard person and I thought, ‘I can cope with this’, but then there was a point where I was a bit panicky, I think it was the second biopsy, and I thought, ‘This must be serious no?’,” Crowe adds. “Even though it was an examination just to see all the areas, it was like, ‘What if they’re going to come back with something?
By this time, Crowe was also using the bathroom more frequently (about four or five times during the day and night), which is one of the many symptoms of prostate cancer.
Ultimately, Crowe was presented with three options. Leave his prostate as it was as the cancer seemed to stabilize, have it treated with