WKTK (98.5, FM) is a radio station here in my town, Gainesville, Florida, and it has a disk jockey named Storm Roberts. A few years ago, Roberts, following diagnosis of and RT for PCa, rather than keep it private, has been using it as a platform to raise local PCa awareness.
Since his treatment in 2011, he has been using his local celebrity as a radio DJ to spread the word about
PCa to all who will listen, citing his own experience, and as well attending (sometimes hosting) local cancer awareness events, charities, etc. He has made himself something of a local hero for his efforts in doing this.
Here is a short video, largely in his own words, of his story, stressing how important it is to him to be doing this:
/www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mg-pIRsnpKkA commendable example of how someone with the power to reach a wide audience can use it to communicate with and hopefully influence the public about
cancer, and PCa in particular.
All the while doing it with a sense of humor. A couple of his comments:
"When I get to heaven I'm going to tell Her – because God's a woman – that the prostate is a lousy design – not Her best work."
"I'm not a glass half-full or glass half-empty kind of guy. I'm a let’s full up your glass kind of guy." (BTW, the hospital scenes in the above video are of the North Florida Regional Medical Center Cancer Center, where I got my own RT in Spring-Summer 2012. (I was treated a bit later than Storm was, so our paths never crossed). There is even a brief conversation in the video with Dr. Cherylle Hayes, who was my RO while I was there).