CARING FOR PATIENTS
Surgery successfully treats his prostate cancer BY JIM HOWE
A series of medical tests provided Donald Gregory of Camillus with good news and bad news. At an annual physical in 2021, Gregory, 69, found out he had an elevated level of PSA, or prostatespecific antigen, indicating he might have prostate cancer. He underwent a biopsy, where tissue samples are taken from the prostate gland, a walnut-sized gland that surrounds the neck of a man's bladder and urethra, the tube that carries urine from the bladder.
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