Comments on: And I’m Daniel… Sam Newman’s Cancer Surgery & Peter Harvey’s Mail Bag Coming Up On 60 Minutes… tick tick tick tick tick tick…

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 20:28:59 +0000

Highlighting this plight is fantastc but the right message is to get a blood PSA test - no grafts as stated above are necessary - this simple test is done with other blood tests such as cholesterol etc… can very quickly indicate a problem. It is correct though that not all men who get PC have symptoms and the PSA test is sometime the ONLY way to find out. At 46 yrs I had no symptoms, was playing footy and had a good job, had a few aches and pains but when tested this January had a PSA of 254 - unfortunatley my cancer has already spread to the bones and is not curable but if it’s caught early like in Sam’s case it IS curable. So the more men get the test the better.

By: Dave Lewis

Dave Lewis — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 14:18:27 +0000

Re comment by Maggie Harding’

“GET A LIFE”

By: Maggie harding

Maggie harding — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 12:32:22 +0000

So Sam had cancer, sorry for him, but there are a lot of other people who have gone through this.

Eddie Maguire was pathetic getting every bit of drama out of this that he could 2/10

If men are suck sooks that they can not have a check up once a year bad luck.
Women have swabs taken, mammograms hysterectomys etc.

By: DaNnY bOy

DaNnY bOy — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 10:45:05 +0000

Yeah I know haha, I just wanted to be a smart arse with the title.

By: Nicko

Nicko — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 10:43:37 +0000

Wow. That was quick.
One thing though, tonight they didn’t say “…and Peter Harvey’s Mailbag…” they actually said “…and Peter Harvey”

By: DaNnY bOy

DaNnY bOy — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 10:32:19 +0000

Well actually their was a report on Nine News tonight that Sam’s situation has raised so much awareness that the Cancer Council is telling people that they shouldn’t worry because getting the prostate checked means taking a graft of it which then damages it. They say that the average age to get the cancer is 70 so the best thing is to be freindly with your GP who knows about any famiuly history etc… because its not a simple thing to just check.
If anything there what I said made sense.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 10:27:04 +0000

it’s not a matter of seeing a doctor “if they are not feeling right”. I didn’t see the story, and of course don’t know Sam’s situation personally, but something like prostate cancer can have no symptoms until it is too late. The key is awareness, and to get checked especially if you’re over 40.