Author: by Luisel Ricks-Santi

After his diagnosis, my father was faced with the decision of how to proceed with treatment.“Me encontraron càncer en la pròstata,” my father told me. They found cancer in my prostate. As a cancer researcher who knows very well about the high incidence and decreased survival rates of prostate cancer in the Caribbean, I anguished over these words. Even though I study cancer in my day job, I struggled to take in this news. At the time, all I could muster in response was “What did the doctor say?” “The urologist wants me to see the radiation oncologist to discuss…

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