Medical Matters: Prostate Cancer Awareness Month

I'm a 53-year-old guy.

My technical producer is a 40-something-year-old guy.

So, uh, my sense is that, and, and we're, both of us are Black guys.

[laughs] So my sense-- So, you know, when I was reading that stat, both of us sat up and said, "Hey, bru, we need to go and get checked," right?

Absolutely.

Yeah.

And it's, it's so simple.

Yeah.

It's just a blood test.

You can go to a, a lab, path- pathology laboratory, pop in at a pharmacy, uh, to a pharmacy clinic, um, go to your GP.

Um, as I said, we, we've taken that dreaded finger.

It's not necessary just to, to screen for prostate cancer.

If there's a problem-

Yeah

... um, then we're gonna, then we're gonna refer you to a urologist.

They're kind of our main health specialists.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

[laughs]

Um, and the urologist will do further, uh, tests.

I, I can safely say that I ha- I have had a test before and, and, you know, maybe two years ago.

Would it be, would be ...

Would it be good for me to go for another one this year, perhaps?

So we actually recommend every year just-