"I feel terrific," Gardner tells Mark Washburn at The Charlotte Observer, who was diagnosed six months ago with a high-risk form of the disease.
Gardner, 64, had been urged by John Carter, who does the early news shift on WBTV (Channel 3), to get his PSA levels checked. Carter was diagnosed in 2006 with an early stage of prostate cancer.
Gardner's treatment involved implantation of 58 tiny radioactive particles to kill the cancer. In 18 months, doctors hope, the cancer will have been eradicated.
Adopting the slogan "cancer hates exercise," Gardner has increased his workout program. He does boxing three days a week and three other days he runs three to six miles a day. You need a real "shirt-soaker," Gardner says, for the exercise to be effective.
Gardner's treatment also involved a hormone implant in one arm and daily radiation treatments for six weeks.
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