Prostate Cancer: a Doctor's Personal Triumph

When Dr. Robert Fine was diagnosed with prostate cancer, he and his wife knew that they were facing the most serious challenge of their 40 years together. In researching prostate cancer, they consulted three local doctors and were given three completely different treatment plans. They ultimately chose radioactive seed implantation rather than radical prostatectomy, which was the typical prostate cancer treatment for years. Seed implantation is a breakthrough prostate cancer treatment that has been shown to be safer and may be even more effective than prostatectomy. This is the true story of a husband and wife confronting a deadly illness and winning.

Saralee Fine has taught at the high school and college level for years and has had hundreds of her poems published in journals and anthologies. Robert Fine, MD, has been a practicing radiologist since 1965. They live in Atlanta, Georgia.