Giuliani announces that he has prostate cancer at a news conference on Thursday, April 27, 2000. He did not say how the illness would affect his putative run for the U.S. Senate . He admitted that treatment would require him to shuffle his schedule. He said he and his doctors would decide over the next few weeks what course of treatment to pursue.
Prostate cancer is the second most common form of cancer in men.
It accounts for 11 percent of cancer-related deaths in men. If detected and treated early, prostate cancer is treatable. The prognosis is not nearly as optimistic if the cancer spreads. The walnut-sized gland, which produces sperm, is located at the front of the rectum and under the bladder. Preventing Cancer American Cancer Society figures show that eighty-nine percent of the men diagnosed with prostate cancer survive more than five years, and 63 percent live for 10 or more years.