If fate does decide that you should have prostate cancer. Then you will be joining a select group of men in all walks of life who have shared the same experience.  The following men have, or have had prostate cancer.

King Hussein of Jordan
                                         Singer Robert Goulet
                                                                                   Actor Telly Savalas
General Schwarzkopf who said
“For me, it was like war.  The first thing you do is learn about the enemy”.

“I’m not a type-B personality who knows I have cancer growing inside of me and can live with knowledge”-------“I go into a kung-fu attack position when I go through the door of a hospital”.

President Francois Mitterrand
                                               
                                         Tennis player Bobby Riggs
                                                                                             
                                                                                    Actor Bill Bixby
NFL Player Len Dawson who said
“All my life, I’ve been lucky, and luck was certainly on my side in 1993 when I was diagnosed with an early stage of prostate cancer and received effective treatment”.

                                        Baseball player Stan “The Man” Musial    

NASCAR Racing driver Richard Petty
Always have your yearly check, which should include a digital-rectal exam and a PSA test. This could be your most important road test.

                                        Humanitarian Ayatollah Khomeini

Enterprising Junk Bond dealer Michael Milken who said.
“I remember lying in bed with my wife talking about the Book of Job, wondering how many more challenges were coming my way. I was in a state of depression.”

Later he said, “I decided that I had to change the course of history”.  He then founded a public charity, called Cap cure dedicated to finding a cure for prostate cancer.


Actor Sidney Poitier
                                    Actor Jerry Lewis
                                                             Football coach Marv Levy

Senator Jesse Helms
                                   Senator Bob Dole  
                                                          Social commentator Timothy Leary
Mayor Marion Barry
                                    Golfer Arnold Palmer

Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa
“I didn’t know I was ill until the doctor told me.” He said

 Justice J. P. Stevens
                                    TV Actor Barry Bostwick

Actor Don Ameche     “I feel very fortunate that it was detected early.”
                                    
Singer Frank Zappa
                                                            President Mobutu of Zaire
                       
Entertainer-Hotel mogul  Merv Griffin

                                    Senator Bill Roth

Publisher and Author Michael Korda

                                    Black Power Activist Stokely Carmichael

Actor Charlton Heston

                                    Actor Mason Adams
                                                            Senator Ted Stevens
Country Singer Ray Stevens
“It came as a complete surprise, but I’m relieved that it was detected early.”

Cartoonist Jim Berry  (‘Berry’s World’)

                Broadcast Journalist Robert Novak

General Manager of the New York Yankees Bob Watson

British Actor Michael Bentine made the following comments.
“When people hear you’ve got cancer, they go. Oh my God. But it’s not all that bad.  I’ve got an indolent carcinoma – a lazy bugger, like me.”

Later as the cancer progressed, he said, “All I am trying to do is see how much one is helped by positive thinking. I want to see how long humor can help me, because it might help somebody else on the way there.”