Ben Stiller Battle With Prostate Cancer as he finally opens up

Ben Stiller revealed on SiriusXM's The Howard Stern Show Tuesday that he was diagnosed with "immediately aggressive" prostate cancer at the age of 48. The Zoolander 2 actor, now 50, appeared on Howard Stern's program with his surgeon and discussed his experience for the first time publicly. "It came out of the blue for me," Stiller said of the diagnosis. "I had no idea."

Although Stiller had no family history of prostate cancer, his doctor was able to detect the disease due to a Prostate-Specific Antigen (PSA) test during a yearly physical. "If I hadn't gotten the test—my doctor started giving it to me at 46—I still wouldn't know," he explained. When Stiller's doctor first gave him PSA test, the doctor found that the actor's levels were high. The doctor re-administered the test six months later and found the PSA had gone up even more. "After the second time, I started to get a little worried," Stiller said. The actor went through a series of tests, including an MRI and biopsy, to determine if he definitely had prostate cancer.



Stiller later had surgery to remove his prostate, but he keeps getting tested just to be safe. "I wanted to talk about it because of the test," he said, "because I feel like the test saved my life."

"The controversy about the test is that once you get treatment for prostate cancer, things can happen: incontinence, impotence," said Stiller, who produced the new film Why Him?. "It's the second most deadly cancer, but it's also one of the most survived cancers, if it's detected early."

Source:E!news

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