New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani announced Thursday that he has been diagnosed with prostate cancer. The New York mayor was spotted by a reporter as he entered the Guggenheim Pavilion of Mount Sinai Medical Center on Wednesday morning. He left some three hours later. It's at very, very early stage of the disease and also at a very early stage of determining what to do about it. Prostate cancer develops within cells of the prostate, a walnut-sized gland found in men just below the bladder.
Most prostate cancers grow very slowly, but some can spread quickly to other parts of the body.
Obviously the bad news is that there is cancer, but the good news is that there are lots of possible options. The second-term mayor cited his father's death from prostate cancer as the main reason the PSA test was included as part of his annual physical. It brings up very painful memories. I hope that I'd be able to run, but the choice that I'm going to make is going to be based on the treatment that's going to give me the best chance to have a complete cure. My focus has to be how to figure out the best form of treatment.