Wow, O.C., I hope you're breathing easier - both figuratively and literally - soon. 

Besides Jerry Howarth, I can think of two very prominent on-air types who fought fairly public battles with prostate cancer - and oddly, both worked for City TV. The most famous was likely the great Mark Dailey, who invited the audience to follow him during his treatment using radioactive seeds. He died some years later from kidney cancer that spread to his lungs, and I had always thought it was related to his earlier illness, since the cancer cells can migrate to other parts of the body.

I found out I was wrong about that when when of the doctors I consulted told me one form of the disease had no effect on the other in his case. When I asked how he knew that, he stunned me by telling me he had been Mark's radiologist!

The other well known figure who suffered from the big PC was ecology reporter and co-founder of Greenpeace, Bob Hunter. As I understand it, when traditional medicine failed him, Bob turned to some less-than-proven naturopathic treatments in Mexico. But it was too late. He passed away from the disease in 2005.