That Black Men Might Live: My Fight Against Prostate Cancer - Softcover

Reverend Charles Williams is the president of Indiana Black Expo, America's largest health exposition. He is currently undergoing treatment for prostate cancer. He lives in Indianapolis, Indiana. Vernon A. Williams is the Indianapolis bureau chief for Gary Info Newspapers. He is also the career-technical supervisor for the Indianapolis public schools. His work has appeared in the Indianapolis Star, Indianapolis Herald, and Crains Chicago Business. He lives in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Williams, a minister, promoter, and president of the Indiana Black Expo, was an admitted Type A personality, a workaholic loathe to slow down and take note of the signs of a medical problem. Instead, he ignored his problems, self-diagnosed, and conspired to tell friends who were doctors only some of the symptoms, warding off the feared diagnosis of cancer. When the diagnosis of prostrate cancer finally came, Williams was at stage four, beyond cure. Accepting the consequences of his own neglect and the irony that he had long been a promoter of health fairs, Williams offers his experience as a cautionary tale. His self-criticism is rooted in resolve and a out-right conviction that for believers everything--including cancer--works for the good. Williams is very forthright in revealing his missteps, his insecurities before the diagnosis, his vulnerabilities since then, and, above all, his mistake of putting work and achievement ahead of higher values. Though this heartrending and courageous book is aimed at black men, its message is for all men of middle age and older. Vernon Ford
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