GREEN BAY (WLUK) — One in eight men will get prostate cancer in their lifetime. That statistic, from the American Cancer Society, reminds us that it’s likely to affect someone we know and love. A friend of FOX 11 is one of those men. Josif Wittnik, of our Monday Morning Makeovers, is going through cancer treatments for the second time.
Josif and Dr. Joseph Bovi, a Radiation Oncologist with ThedaCare Cancer Care, appeared on Good Day Wisconsin for September Prostate Cancer Awareness month.
“A few months ago, I learned my cancer had returned,” says Wittnik. “Reoccurring prostate cancer isn’t easy, but I took it one day at a time — two months on a daily oral treatment and 38 straight days of radiation.” Josif urges every man to get regular checkups. “The most frustrating thing to me is that people say prostate cancer is not a big deal.”…