The Rt. Rev. Marc Andrus (California) discloses on his weblog that he has prostate cancer:
The biopsy showed that cancer was present, “low grade.” My age (young for prostate cancer) and some features of the cancer, however, pushed strongly towards a surgical treatment.
…My surgery is scheduled for September 28, not long away. I’m not planning on writing a great deal about all this, but today, both to try and be helpful to those for whom a little information might be comforting, and to provide my own small understanding of what this all means, I thought it was important to write.
Read it all.