Belizean prostate cancer survivor releases book

There is another publication to add to your growing collection by Belizean authors and it is by Harold Usher, a survivor of Prostate Cancer who has been living in Canada for over forty years. Fifteen years later and still cancer-free, Usher has teamed up with his Urologist Joseph Chin and put on paper his experiences in the book entitled, “Prostate! Prostate! Prostate! A Problem of Men”. It is a subject that some consider taboo, and in the three hundred page book Usher provides a wealth of information from diagnosis to the treatment of the cancer. The book has been receiving attention in China and Canada and will now be available in Belize. Usher, who is a City Councillor in London, Ontario is also a motivational speaker. His niece, Betty-Jean Usher-Tate, is in charge of promoting the book locally and says it also contains good health tips for both men and women.

Betty-Jean Usher-Tate, Niece of Author, Harold Usher
“In the 1990’s he discovered that his prostate was acting up. He sought various different treatments before he eventually got to the point where they did the surgery. I know that he’s been cancer free since then but not without other health issues.”

Duane Moody
“And this book basically is just?”

Betty-Jean Usher-Tate
“A journey through. And this is a book that is not set up for doctors or nurses; this is the layman’s copy. This book is a book that will be like a handbook for you to recognise what’s happening with yourself as a man or with the males around you. It’s a book where you can learn a lot about what you eat that would be good for you or not good for you, what you need to do in terms of additional exercise, what questions to ask when there are problems that are arising with your prostate, what your options are if you have prostate cancer or if you just simply have an enlarged prostate which is not necessarily cancer. So this book is very educational, it’s an easy read. It’s one that men, I really believe, need to read.”

The book is available at the Leo Bradley Library Services and at Brodies for eighty dollars. The proceeds from the sale of the book will be donated to prostate cancer research and education.