Word: milken
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During that exam, Milken recalls, he asked for a PSA test. "Why bother?" the doctor responded. "You're too young." But Milken insisted, and now the results were in. "He told me that everything was perfect," says Milken, "except that I had a PSA score of 24." Two repeat PSA tests produced similar results, and a subsequent biopsy confirmed the worst: he did indeed have cancer...
...that the biopsy results were devastating would be an understatement," Milken says. "I remember lying in bed with my wife and talking about the Book of Job, wondering how many more challenges were coming my way. I was in a state of depression...
...didn't last long. Mustering the relentless drive that made him a Wall Street billionaire in his 30s, Milken declared a personal war on prostate cancer, vowing not only to fight his own illness but to help finance the larger scientific battle against the disease. "I decided that I had to change the course of history," he says. And he may just do that, for himself and for the millions of other men who have or will develop prostate cancer...
Like Schwarzkopf, Milken pored over the medical literature, conferred with experts and opted for a prostatectomy, relieved, he says, because "technology had improved and a lot of horror stories that you hear are related to surgeries from the past...
That relief was short-lived. Returning to his urologist for a diagnostic computer scan, Milken learned that his lymph nodes were swollen. A subsequent needle biopsy confirmed that the nodes were malignant. His cancer had metastasized, spread beyond the walls of his prostate; surgical removal of the gland would now really serve no purpose...