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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...
...Milken was stunned. "I'd mentally got myself geared up to the realization that I had prostate cancer," he recalls. "I'd gotten over the 'Why me?' and spoken to a number of friends who had had successful surgery. That's where I was going to make my stand." Now what? Searching for an answer, he scheduled a bone-marrow test at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston to determine if the cancer had spread to his bones. If it had, his life expectancy would be measured in months, and he was hardly sanguine about the outcome...
...GROWTH OF PROSTATE-CANCER cells is stimulated by the male hormone testosterone, and to halt and possibly reverse the progress of Milken's malignancy, his doctors prescribed a hormone treatment that shuts down production of testosterone. "I began taking two pills three times a day," says Milken, and got a time-release shot once a month." The results were dramatic. His PSA level dropped from 24 to 15, then to 10, 5 and 3, and by August, when he began undergoing supplementary radiation therapy, it stood at zero. The computer scans were also encouraging; they showed that his swollen lymph...
...Milken is back in business, running several of his family businesses and philanthropic enterprises and flying around the U.S. for meetings with top corporate officers. (He is also under investigation for possibly violating his parole in recent business dealings, including his consultations with the Turner Broadcasting System on its proposed merger with Time Warner...