>>ZAC LASHWAY: GOOD MORNING, WELCOME BACK 7.40 NOW ON YOUR SATURDAY MORNING TALKING HEALTH
THIS MORNING, ONE IN 9 MEN WILL
BE DIAGNOSED WITH PROSTATE
CANCER IN
THEIR LIFETIME. LONGTIME NBC
NEWS WEATHERMAN AL ROKER
ANNOUNCED HE IS BATTLING
PROSTATE CANCER. THE 66
YEAR-OLD SAID HE WILL BE
UNDERGOING SURGERY NEXT WEEK TO
HAVE HIS
PROSTATE REMOVED. JOINING ME
NOW IS DOCTOR DOCTOR SCOTT
ACKERMAN WITH THE ACKERMAN
CANCER CENTER. THANK YOU SO
MUCH FOR TALKING WITH US THIS
MORNING.
>> GOOD MORNING. THANK YOU VERY
MUCH WILL ONLY
BE HERE.
>>ZAC LASHWAY: YOU KNOW
THROUGHOUT THE MONTH OF
SEPTEMBER PROSTATE CANCER
AWARENESS MONTH WE HERE ON THE
MORNING SHOW DID
A BIG.
SEVERAL SEGMENTS ON PROSTATE
CANCER AND IDENTIFYING HAVING
THAT OFFERED CONVERSATION THAT
UNCOMFORTABLE CONVERSATION FOR
A LOT OF MEN HOW TO START THAT
CONVERSATION HOW TO START THAT
DIALOGUE AND THEN OF COURSE
TREATMENT OPTIONS TREATMENT HAS
COME SO FAR IN THE PAST
SEVERAL YEARS. BUT FROM YOUR
PERSPECTIVE DOCTOR WHERE WOULD
YOU RECOMMEND STARTING THIS
CONVERSATION.
>> WELL I THINK WHEN A MAN GETS
INTO HIS
LATE 30’S. IS IT TIME AND FOR
SOME A CONVERSATION WITH THE
PATIENT ABOUT
PROSTATE CANCER. IT WAS ON THAT
WE DON’T TYPICALLY RECOMMEND
SCREENING TO THE AGE OF 50
THEIR
SERVICE SAID SEGMENTS OF THE
POPULATION THAT ARE AT HIGHER
RISK THAT WE MAY RECOMMEND
SCREENING A LITTLE BIT EARLIER.
PROSECUTORS BELIEVE PREVALENT
AND MOST PROSTATE CANCERS ARE
SLOW GROWING. THE FILLY IN
DELAND AND MOST MEN DON’T DIE
OF THE PROSTATE CANCERS,
BUT ALICIA SCREEN PROPERLY AND
I KNOW IS PROPERLY, YOU KNOW
KNOW THAT AND UNFORTUNATELY
BECAUSE IT’S BEEN DEEMED THIS
IS A SCREENING ABOUT 5 OR
10 YEARS AGO.
THERE’S A LOT OF MEN NOW
THEY’VE GOT THEIR BEING
DIAGNOSED WITH CANCER THE MORE
ADVANCED AGE.
>>ZAC LASHWAY: I KNOW YOU’RE
WATCHING OUT SPEAK ABOUT
THIS YESTERDAY. HE HAD SAID
THAT HE JUST WENT IN FOR A
ROUTINE CHECKUP. THEY DID BLOOD
HIS PSA. I’LL LET YOU TALK A LITTLE MORE ABOUT WHAT PSA IS HIS PSA CAME BACK ELEVATED AND
HE WAS REALLY UPSET BECAUSE HE
DIDN’T BRING HIS WIFE WAS
ALSO CORRESPONDENT. IN THE
INDUSTRY WITH THEY RETESTED HIM
HIS PSA LEVELS WERE STILL HIGH.
BUT HE WAS ALSO TALKING ABOUT
HOW PARTICULARLY AFRICAN
AMERICAN MEN.
>> OR.
>>ZAC LASHWAY: MORE SUSCEPTIBLE
OR AT LEAST SHOULD START
SCREENING. EARLIER.
>> OTHER MET.
>> CORRECT SO THE PSA TEST AND
PETE US A SENSE FOR PROSTATE
SPECIFIC ANTIGEN IT’S A BLOOD
TEST
IS ANTIGEN IS NORMALLY AT LOW
LEVELS IN THE BODY. IT’S
EXCRETED FROM THE PROSTATE
NORMALLY AT LOW LEVELS. THE
PATIENTS PROSTATE CANCER.
THOSE LEVELS GO UP IN THE
CANCER CELLS. IT’S SWEET THAT
PSA ANTIGEN AND A HIGHER LEVEL.
SO THAT’S ONE OF THE TOOLS WE
USE TO SCREEN FOR PROSTATE
CANCER, THIS WILL BE USED IS AN
EXAMINATION OF DIGITAL RECTAL
EXAMINATION WHICH ARE RENTALS
AND WE FEEL THE PROSTATE
INFIELD FOR NODULES BECAUSE NOT
ALL
PROSTATE CANCERS EXCRETE THE
PSA SO SUPPORTIVE FIELD FOR
NODULES
AS WELL AS YOU MENTIONED HE THE
AFRICAN AMERICAN IS AT
HIGHER RISK. SO AS I MENTIONED
EARLIER THAT WE WANT THEN TO
START HAVING A CONVERSATION
WITH THE POSITION EARLY 30’S
BECAUSE THIS SCREEN, THIS
REGULAR SCREENING. WE TYPICALLY
RECOMMEND FOR AVERAGE RISK
PATIENTS AT THE AGE OF 50 FOR
PATIENTS WHO ARE AT HIGH RISK.
AGE 45. AND PATIENTS WHO ARE
VERY HIGH RISK
AGE 40. SO WHO IS AT HIGH RISK
IT WAS A VERY HIGH RISK IS A IS
A COMMON QUESTION. SO SO IT WAS
EVER TRUST HAS NO FAMILY
HISTORY OF PROSTATE CANCER.
IT IS NOT AN AFRICAN AMERICAN.
BUT AFRICAN AMERICANS TO
DEVELOP PROSTATE CANCER IN ONE
IN 7.
THERE IS A GENERAL POPULATION
IS ONE TONIGHT
AND AFRICAN AMERICANS WHEN THEY
GET PROSTATE CANCER, WE TEND TO
BE
MORE AGGRESSIVE AND THE DEATH
RATE OF PROSTATE CANCER IN
AFRICAN AMERICANS IS
SIGNIFICANTLY HIGHER AND IN ON
AFRICAN AMERICANS. SO THAT’S A
HIGH RISK GROUP AND SO
THOSE GENTLEMEN. I TYPICALLY
RECOMMEND SWEETING ON AN ANNUAL
BASIS BEING AT THE
AGE 45. IF YOU’RE
AFRICAN-AMERICAN AND YOU HAVE A
STRONG FAMILY HISTORY OF
PROSTATE CANCER AND THAT’S THAT
THERE’S A PACE THAT CONSIDERED
VERY HIGH RISK MEANING SWEETIE