SUNBURY – After Governor Tom Wolf announced Wednesday that he has prostate cancer, he told Pennsylvanians treatment will begin soon and take several weeks. Dr. John Danella is director of Urology at Geisinger Medical Center and conducted an interview with WKOK.
Danella said, “Prostate cancer is one of the most commonly diagnosed cancers in American men, so it is very common. It can spread elsewhere, but most prostate cancers, not all, but most grow fairly slowly, so there is a long time generally before that happens.”
Danella says there aren’t always clear symptoms, “Most of the time men are having problems with urination, either frequency of urination or difficulty urinating. It’s really related more to just the size of the prostate and benign enlargement, than it is really from prostate cancer. But, those symptoms sometimes do lead them to seek medical care and during the evaluation of those symptoms, sometimes they are found to have prostate cancer.”
He noted that all prostate cancer cases are different, “If you are diagnosed with prostate cancer, I think it is very important to get more than one opinion as to how you should be managed, because not everybody who has prostate cancer requires treatment. Many of them can just be monitored.”
You can hear more from Dr. Danella on prostate cancer on an upcoming WKOK Sunrise. (Ali Stevens)
