Once we understand the disease, we turn our concerns into knowledge and a path forward that Mark believes must be embraced.

Julie:



Fear was definitely our first reaction, or at least my first reaction. Have you seen the movie Jaws? And there's the shark music in the background and you feel fear and dread? That's the way it was for about three months. You just got anxious to know, so that you could deal with it.



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Dr. Tewari is Mark's doctor.



Dr. Tewari:



I don't think that there is one set way in which to deal with every patient in terms of their anxiety. Every individual is unique. They have their own feelings and own issues and they combine them all together and some of them they express them and some of them they keep inside.



Julie:



One of the things that really helped me was going out online and seeing the stories and the lists of people that are in the public eye that have had prostate cancer and that you see in the newspaper every day and that lead very active, full lives. Joe Torre, Norman Schwartzkopf, Colin Powell, Rudy Guiliani...I mean the list goes on and on and on.



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A man has a 35% greater chance to develop prostate cancer than a woman has to develop breast cancer.



Mark:



The one thing I found about men with prostate cancer is that they seem to be anxious to talk about it. They're initially hesitant, because it's embarrassing but the networking and the talking really helped because it allowed me to start comparing experiences. That led me, us, to a meeting.



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USToo was formed in 1990 by prostate cancer survivors.



Mark:



The night that I went, they were focused on robotic surgery, that evening. And so there were a couple urologists that were giving presentations about robotic surgery, giving the statistics of this versus radiation vs open, and so on. I really started going in deep and looking at robotics and the pros, the cons...