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CANCER HAS NOW SPREAD TO THE BONE. BUT WHILE IT’S AGGRESSIVE, OFFICIALS SAY BIDEN’S CANCER APPEARS TO BE HORMONE SENSITIVE. THAT MEANS IT’S POSSIBLE TO SLOW THE GROWTH BY LOWERING TESTOSTERONE. AND NATIONALLY, 1 IN 8 MEN WILL BE DIAGNOSED WITH PROSTATE CANCER IN THEIR LIFETIME. IT IS THE MOST COMMON TYPE OF CANCER AMONG MEN. ����vlog BEAU BOWMAN IS LIVE AT MERCYONE’S CANCER CENTER IN BO. THE BEST THING DOCTORS SAY YOU CAN DO IS CATCH IT EARLY. YEAH. LAURA JODI I SPOKE WITH THE MEDICAL DIRECTOR HERE AT MERCYONE’S CANCER CENTER, AND HE TELLS ME SCREENING FOR PROSTATE CANCER IS ONE OF THE BEST THINGS YOU CAN DO AS YOU GET OLDER, IT IS MORE COMMON. AS WE GET OLDER, IT’S ALSO MORE COMMON IN MEN OF WESTERN AFRICAN DESCENT. DOCTOR RICHARD DEMING, THE MEDICAL DIRECTOR AT MERCYONE’S CANCER CENTER, SAYS MANY OF THE RISK FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH PROSTATE CANCER ARE THINGS OUT OF MEN’S CONTROL, LIKE AGE, RACE AND FAMILY HISTORY. BUT HE SAYS MOST MEN WHO GET IT WILL NOT HAVE A SHORTENED LIFESPAN, EVEN WHEN DIAGNOSED AT A LATER STAGE. LIKE FORMER PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN. EVEN THOSE MEN, OVER 37% OF THOSE MEN WILL LIVE FIVE YEARS OR MORE. AND I CERTAINLY HAVE MEN IN MY PRACTICE WITH STAGE FOUR PROSTATE CANCER THAT LIVE OVER TEN YEARS. THAT DOESN’T DETRACT FROM THE OTHER SIDE OF THE STORY. LAST YEAR, MORE THAN 35,000 MEN DIED OF THE DISEASE ACROSS THE U.S. THAT INCLUDES 300 IOWANS, ACCORDING TO ZERO PROSTATE CANCER, A NATIONAL NONPROFIT DOCTOR, DEMING SAYS IT CAN BE ASSOCIATED WITH SMOKING AND OBESITY, AND IT’S IMPORTANT TO CATCH IT EARLY ON THROUGH A PSA BLOOD SCREENING, ESPECIALLY IN MEN AGE 50 TO 70 WHO SHOW NO SYMPTOMS. SCREENING IS THE NEXT BEST WAY TO HELP AVOID DYING OF PROSTATE CANCER IS BY DETECTING IT AT AN EARLY STAGE. IN MY CASE, MY PSA WENT UP TWO, FOR EIGHT 12IN THE NUMBER NORMAL BEING ONE MARKET GOOD OF WAUKEE IS A PROSTATE CANCER SURVIVOR. HE STARTED PROSTATE CANCER AWARENESS OF CENTRAL IOWA IN 2021 TO HELP RAISE AWARENESS. IOWA RANKS 13TH IN THE NATION IN PROSTATE CANCER DIAGNOSIS PER 100,000 PEOPLE, WITH AN AVERAGE ANNUAL COUNT OF 2500. AND THAT NUMBER IS RISING, ACCORDING TO THE CDC. GOOD SAYS HE’S LUCKY HE RECEIVED THE SCREENING DURING A NORMAL CHECK IN. I WAS FORTUNATE ENOUGH THAT MY PROSTATE CANCER WAS STILL CONTAINED WITHIN THE PROSTATE, AND THEY CAUGHT IT EARLY, WHICH MEANS THAT I HAVE A 99% SURVIVAL RATE AT FIVE YEARS, 98 AT TEN YEARS. GOODS ORGANIZATION, PROSTATE CANCER AWARENESS OF CENTRAL IOWA WILL BE DOING FREE PSA SCREENINGS AT AN UPCOMING FARMERS MARKET ON JUNE 7TH. DOWN IN DOWNTOWN DES MOINES. WE’RE LIVE IN DES MOINES, BEAU BOWMAN ����vlog EIGHT NEWS. IOWA’S NEWS LEADER.