Share Your Prostate Cancer Story
As a wife, partner, daughter or family member of someone who has been diagnosed with prostate cancer you have a unique perspective and story to share. With a disease like prostate cancer the treatment options are numerous and the outcomes, side effects, and learnings are diverse. A prostate cancer diagnosis can create a lasting impact on a family or relationship.
This new page is dedicated to allowing the women impacted by prostate cancer to share their story, struggles, and messages of hope with others.
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I always smile and am always happy because what else should I do? Crying helps to relieve some pressure but the pain is always there. I don’t want people to be shocked or upset if I tell them how I truly feel because I’d rather see them happy.
I get this positive attitude from my dad, Peter-Michael. He died of prostate cancer on July 25th, the day before my mum’s birthday, a week before their 26th wedding anniversary, a month before the beginning of my senior year, and almost 10 years after his diagnosis. [Click here to read full story]
Meet Betty GalloWhen her husband, Dean, died of prostate cancer in 1994, Gallo wanted to do “something, anything” to help others with the disease. So she carved out a new, and very rewarding, role for herself as prostate cancer advocate. [Click here to read full story]
If it weren’t for PSA testing, we never would have known my husband had prostate cancer. Like most men, he didn’t have any symptoms. It was an incidental urinary infection that led to his diagnosis at the young age of 49. [Click here to read full story]
Wedding plans and cancer treatments —two things that generally don’t go together. In our case, however, planning for both went hand in hand.
Five months after my husband Rich proposed, he found out the prostate cancer he was treated for 9 years before we met — was back. [Click here to read full story]
On January 14th, I looked into my husband’s bright blue eyes and vowed, “In sickness, and in health, until death do we part.” For many women who repeat that vow, it is an abstract distant concept. For me, it was an already present, vivid reality. Just days prior to the wedding, we had our first couples visit with his oncologist, and another injection of Zoladex to shut down his testosterone in hopes it would keep his cancer in check for a little while longer. [Click here to read full story]
