Apr 18 2008
Important Talk for Men – Prostate Cancer
Ed Cone writes about the importance of men getting tested for possible prostate cancer. First of all, it’s a blood test (PSA) that indicates whether further examination and testing needs to be done.
While acknowledging “that packaging the words “prostate” and “cancer” in one soundbite creates a phrase of uncommonly low conversational appeal, a compact cluster of social taboos,” he neatly lays out why the conversation needs to be held.
As unpleasant a conversation as it might be, it beats a national conversation on race and gender.
