Lee Goldberg is a longtime Maine television personality who was diagnosed with prostate cancer after a routine PSA test came back elevated. He chose surgery, and used his platform at Channel 6 to launch Prostate Cancer Maine, a nonprofit pushing for wider PSA testing and insurance coverage. His wife, Karen Goldberg, spent his diagnosis anonymously researching prostate cancer online under a male persona, trying to learn what men in his position were actually afraid of. They're raising seven kids, including Theo, the son they had while all of this was happening.
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S1 Ep 3 | Lee Goldberg spent a year stalling his prostate biopsy because he hated the idea of it. Then his PSA kept climbing, and a routine test turned into surgery, timed right in the middle of his wife Karen's seventh pregnancy. Lee talks candidly about the recovery and the humbling of needing help for the first time in his life. Then there's the FaceTime moment when his urologist told him the one thing about prostate cancer and sex that made him high-five the guy on the spot.