Getting that diagnosis just about floored me. You realize that you've been skating on thin ice
your complete life. And for the first time as a man, you start to watch that time clock wind down.
I'm Euvon Jones. I received my care from MedStar Georgetown University Hospital. I
took a lot of things for granted. My health was great all the way up to 59 years old. I
didn't think it was necessary to check on my health. I was not screened. I didn't even have
a general practitioner. So once they finally told me I had stage 4 cancer, I sat there in
total denial. Dr. Dawson talked to us. She was so professional. The thing I liked about her,
she didn't pull any punches, and she walked me through what the different options were,
And the sector of options I preferred were some immunotherapy processes. And she put me
on Provenge, the immunotherapy that comes from a leukapheresis process where the
blood is taken out of your body, it goes through a centrifuge, and shakes down the
white blood cells from the red blood cells. The white blood cells are taken to the lab,
infused and morphed to be tremendous, strong, major transformers. And then on the third day,
those white blood cells are put back into your body to go and fight to help your immune system.
It just took my original PSA of 398, and now I am down to 0.1, which they call undetectable. I
have not been sliced, diced, radiated, or burned, and I've got a lot of warriors inside of me
fighting. We've been married almost 37 years. She came alongside of me, and my wife said
sweetheart you don't have prostate cancer. She said we have this, so what affects you affects
our four kids and then our four grandchildren. My wife became a student. And as she researched
that, then she started to write about it, and then "The Trial of Stage IV Prostate Cancer," Janet Jones.
The book helps people understand how to live healthy. It also gives recipes, and that book
has been a doorway to talk to different men. We do seminars, and this book is basically blessing
men left and right. And I so want others to be receiving the benefit of it. And I cannot say
enough for MedStar Georgetown. They are really on the cutting edge, and men need to know. They
need to know the necessity is that we get our checkups. And for me since stage 4
diagnosis, I really feel blessed, feel very blessed. It has meant the world to me. And the
reality is that you, you look at it and you know that life is precious. Life is precious.