Silence can be deadly when it comes to prostate cancer : Health : TCPalm

[Guest guest]

How

do we get men to ask for help more often?

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But

recent news that musical celebrities Dan Fogelberg and Stills had been

diagnosed with prostate cancer may have the effect of starting more

discussions. Fogelberg, 56, died of the disease Dec. 16; The following day, Crosby, Stills and Nash band member Graham Nash mentioned

in a Larry King interview that the 62-year-old Stills had been diagnosed with

it and was planning to seek treatment.

Legendary

musician Zappa died of prostate cancer in 1992, at age 52.

" Anytime

you get someone who's had their name on the marquee, you think, 'Hey, these

guys are just as mortal as I am,' " said Dr. Gus Espinosa, a psychiatrist

at Lawnwood Regional Medical Center & Heart Institute in Fort Pierce. " It pushes things into the

public eye and they're talked about a little more. "

Espinosa

said women have sought him out for counseling after treatments for breast and

other gender-specific cancers. But no man has sought his counsel to talk about

the effects of prostate cancer and treatment, Espinosa said.

" People

who come into my office come because of a perceived lack of options in their

lives, " he said.