Harry Belafonte
Actor, songwriter and activist Belafonte was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 1996. Belafonte’s cancer was detected early and doctors performed surgery. But after his procedure, he still had many questions. “What to do about the options? How to treat this [disease] if it turned out to be other than the doctor suspected?” Belafonte decided to conduct lectures about his experience with prostate cancer so other men may improve their cancer experience and themselves.
“Used to be, men didn’t want to talk about cancer of the prostate. Men were just too macho,” Belafonte told The Los Angeles Times. “The prostate is something that attacks that central part of the male body that men are preoccupied with. Somehow, any disorder there means your life is over, you can’t be a man anymore,” but he advises that after men have endured the necessary treatment, they need to get on with their lives, saying: “Make it work. Live life as fully as possible.”
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