Could it be cancer?’ What to do when fear gets ahead of facts [Video]

Whenever a celebrity has cancer, the public eye turns in that direction. It can either cause us to over-personalize our own risk, or it can teach us how to approach cancer with courage and resolve. I am impressed with how the royals, Princess Kate and King Charles, have handled their cancers, even if we still don’t know the exact etiology in either case. They have both handled their unexpected diagnoses with aplomb and have shouldered on. A lesson in class for everyone who is watching them. 

With Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and his diagnosis of prostate cancer and subsequent complications, the lesson is a bit different. He wasn’t as forthright early on, and one has to wonder if he was concerned about being stigmatized. Black men are much more likely to delay screening or treatment for prostate cancer, despite the fact that the disease is more than twice as commonin Black men and more than twice …