Updated: 05/17/2013 - For many who have battled and beat cancer they feel a sense to give back and help educate others. In Amber Philpott's May Think Pink, she has the story of one woman's fight to beat breast cancer and how it led her to organize a unique and fun way to spread the word about early detection.
Updated: 02/24/2011 - It started with an irritation in his groin area, and eventually led to a diagnosis that would change his life forever. Country music star and Boyle County resident Eddie Montgomery lost his father to prostate cancer 17-years ago.
Updated: 01/18/2011 - WKYT anchor Sam Dick is recovering this afternoon following surgery to remove his prostate after being diagnosed with prostate cancer.
Updated: 12/13/2010 - Sam Dick battles prostate cancer and urges awareness for early detection
Posted: 11/22/2010 - A country music star from central Kentucky says he is battling cancer.
*After skin cancer, prostate cancer is the most common cancer in American men
*About 1 man in 6 will be diagnosed with prostate cancer during his lifetime
*The prostate is about the size of a walnut & found below the bladder
*The prostate helps make some of the fluid (semen) that protects & nourishes the sperm
*Most of the time prostate cancer grows slowly
*Prostate cancer is more common in African-American men
*Men with close family members (father or brother) who have had prostate cancer are more likely to get it themselves
*PSA stands for Prostate-specific antigen, and is a substance made by the prostate gland
*The chance of having prostate cancer goes up as the PSA level goes up
*Early prostate cancer often causes no symptoms
