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I knew getting prostate cancer at 48 would change me. I had no idea how much.
When a routine blood test revealed the possibility that cancer was lurking in his prostate, Globe writer Mark Shanahan was just 48, with a wife and two kids. He quickly discovered prostate cancer is absurdly common. It kills almost as many people each year as breast cancer, and Black men are at especially high risk. But it can affect sexual function and continence, so men are reluctant to talk about it. Mark is not.

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