>> A Liberty county man was adamant about getting his prostate checked.
His father had prostate cancer and he wasn't sure if he would be next in line.
Here is Gary Young's journey.
Sixty-seven-year old Gary Young goes to work in style [music].
>> A '63 Buick Riviera, that's two times the metal and gets four miles to the gallon.
That's my little toy.
>> A passion that has become his career.
He has been selling cars for nearly half a century.
>> As long as I feel good to get up every day and go have some fun and help take care
of people like I've been taking care of, and give back some of my expertise to them, I
will stay with it.
>> This vehicle just came out.
It is in-between the Encore and the Enclave.
>> A dedicated salesman with a sales pitch that has earned him the title of top Buick
seller in the country a couple of times.
Now he has another goal.
His sales pitch is personal.
>> Life.
Life is my goal.
>> Gary wants other men to realize how a simple physical and a blood test saved his life.
>> My doctor checked my prostate every year since I was 40 years old.
We detected when I was 59, going on 60, that there was some abnormity in my prostate, so
he suggested that I have some further tests done.
>> Go ahead.
Get it done, you know.
I didn't want him to wait.
You never know it's going to happen.
>> He got me in pretty quickly.
I had the biopsies done through the Med Center and waited for the results for a couple of
days or a week.
He called me September 9th, 4:15 in the afternoon.
I was standing out back.
>> I just looked at his face.
He just got all white and had to sit down and when he got off the phone I said Gary,
what?
>> He said Gary, I've got some not so good news for you.
He said that You have prostate cancer.
You've got four out of the 16 cores showed cancer in them.
>> It scared me.
It really did.
>> Doctors diagnosed Gary with early stage prostate cancer.
>> In Gary's case, we can see a dark area on the right side of the prostate which is
where his cancer was, which was still contained within the capsule of the prostate and no
other evidence of disease outside.
>> I just thought right away, it's like you know after all these years of hard work, and
you know, it's start to getting close to maybe the end of my career and all of a sudden my
world is going to come to an end and you know, because my dad had prostate cancer.
I lost some clients and friends with prostate cancer over the years, so I thought this is
it.
But I got to think positive.
I have got to think that God is not ready for me yet, so.
>> Gary is very healthy.
He leads a very active life and when you look at anticipated life expectancy, it was estimated
at 15 to 20 years.
So based upon how much cancer he had on the biopsy as well as a life expectancy, we really
talk about active treatment.
So we really talked about two options, which was radiation therapy or surgical removal
of the prostate.
>> He just didn't know what to do and I told him, I said Gary, get it out and we don't
have to worry about anything.
>> After all the little research and the reading to 2, 3 in the morning and not sleeping for
a week, I decided to go and do the da Vinci procedure.
>> He elected to undergo the robotic surgery and so the robotic surgery is a several hour
long procedure.
It's a laparoscopic procedure where by the [inaudible] are several small incisions on
the belly cavity, introduce trocars into the abdomen, and then do the entire surgery through
those small holes using small microscopic instruments with 3D visualization.
>> A surgery date was set.
>> I said, yeah, I want to do it this day.
Because I am Catholic, so it is a holy day, The Immaculate Conception.
So I think the Mother of God with Her guiding hands will help you and direct your hands
in your operation procedure.
>> I wasn't nervous for him going under or anything like that because I knew he would
be OK.
I just wanted them to get it all.
That's all I thought about.
Just completely get it all.
And which they did.
>> There was no evidence that any of it had violated the capsule of the prostate so they
looked at the capsule and found that the integrity was OK.
There was no cancer that was cracking through there, and his lymph nodes that were located
on either side of the prostate showed no evidence of any involvement.
>> I had prayed and prayed and I just knew that the Lord would answer and, He did.
He came through it wonderful.
>> [Phone ringing] A week after surgery --
>> Hey Laura, could you run that deal for me then for Renee?
>> Gary was back at work.
>> The one we did the other day?
Remember, we just did the retail order?
I feel good.
I am still working 50, 60 hours a week which I shouldn't be doing but I still am and I
feel great.
The backseat now has heated seats.
>> Now Gary is not only selling cars to customers, he's sharing his story too.
>> To me, it is prostate day every day but I, again, give them my thoughts and my personal
experience and what I went through and then the protesting and the checking.
Don't drag your feet about it.
You know, tackle the situation right away and get it done.
Just because you have it doesn't mean you are not going to be around.
If you get it looked at, you will be fine.
>> Spreading the word about prostate screening is Gary's goal.
He wants men to realize how simple the tests are.