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Thoughts on cancer

Cancer – lung, bladder, bone, pancreatic and/or prostate – hits many individuals annually. Sometimes there is a cure, other times not.

The simple mention can through an individual into a tailspin and cause one to cry out, “What can I do? How long of a life span do I have?”

It, too, can be hard on families. Good news or bad news, it is a reality check on a member of the family. It is a sobering moment to say the very least.

Sometimes it is not apparent to one or his family until tests are taken and results returned.

Berkshire Medical Center is committing $30 million to rehab and upgrade its Hillcrest Hospital facility to deal with cancer patients and their families in a warm, concentrated area.

They are planning new techniques along with new radiation equipment in conjunction with becoming an affiliate with Dana Farber in Boston that will be a direct conduit for the two cancer enterprises.

Today, The Berkshire Beacon, as a public service commitment puts its own editor and publisher on the spot to focus on prostrate cancer and offer a written analysis of the issues from start to finish.

Written by Dana C. Drugmand of Washington and a Beacon staff reporter, she captures the issue of notice, the doctors’ thoughts and various procedures, including a second opinion and the alternatives: radiation, surgery and the after-effects.

Most of the pictures were taken by Susan Wicker Guerrero, another Beacon writer, who has captured many of our local stories over the past two years.

The bottom line is to act fast when your body changes, seek out the medical profession locally, and get a plan.

Then get a second opinion and weigh the alternatives.

I had my first issue last May and wrestled with cancer through the summer and focused on a second opinion, alternatives and was ready in October for radiation.

Because I was in the hospital, I postponed radiation treatment until November.

At this juncture, I am feeling good, but doctors are still monitoring my health from gout to heart disease to diabetes and cancer. Does it ever get easier?

Check back in a few years.

Hopefully I can live a long life. My father, G. Carlton Jordan, Jr., died at 71 and my mother, Dorothy P. Jordan, lived to be 98.

With new medical techniques, vast improvements have been made to keep us healthy as we go through the aging process.

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