Senator has prostate cancer

I wonder if Pat Walsh will be doing his surgery...

I bet the blood testing labs in Washington are kept very busy trying to find the other 14 Senators who must have PC...

Just a random observation: A Massachusetts fire chief died of prostate cancer very recently. TV stations covered his passing, but I noticed they would often leave out the word "prostate" when listing cause of death. Found myself being a bit annoyed by the absence, since we all know here on this site that PCa awareness is less than the best. It IS the club no one wants to join, but the high profile patients get more publicity out there...

Our Australian Deputy Prime Minister and Treasurer, Wayne Swan is a PCa survivor and this is quite widely known.

"Biography
The Honourable Wayne Swan MP was sworn in as Treasurer on 3 December 2007 and elected unopposed to the position of Deputy Prime Minister on 24 June 2010.

Mr Swan has been the Member for the Brisbane suburban electorate of Lilley from 1993 to 1996 and from 1998 until the present, and has held senior economic roles in the Labor Party since 1998.

His focus as Treasurer is on strong economic growth, secure employment, competitive businesses, and a fairer go for low and middle income earners in the tax and retirement income systems.

He is best known for his role in helping to formulate Australia's successful response to the global financial crisis, for cutting income taxes in all three of his Budgets and for lifting the age pension.

Deputy Prime Minister Swan is the author of a well-received book on the economics of disadvantage, and lectured in public policy at the Queensland Institute of Technology (now QUT).

As a prostate cancer survivor, he is a vocal, tireless advocate for the early detection of the disease.

The Deputy PM was born 30 June 1954 in Nambour and grew up on Queensland's Sunshine Coast, where he now holidays each year with his wife, two adult daughters and teenage son."

I noticed that too. When my dad died of prostate cancer, I specifically wrote in the news paper it was "prostate cancer" not just cancer. Drives me nuts when it is unspecified what type of cancer it is.