 I had prostate cancer that came back. Ed Derenberger's initial treatment included more than 40 rounds of radiation. Now seven years later, his doctor was recommending surgery. I was kind of scared of the side effects of getting surgery. I was watching television, eating lunch one day. Next thing I know, I said, proton therapy. I said, what the heck's proton therapy? Let me study it. I got my appointment and went down to the University of Maryland Proton Center. This professor comes in, he's Jason Moritorius. He says, well, I looked at your records or your MRIs and all that. You don't need to take it out. I go, what? And he says, yeah, we got a new procedure that we can do. We got HDR. I said, what is HDR? He says, that's high dose radiation. He says, this is only done in two procedures. I said, well, what are the side effects of this HDR? Well, you don't have many. It's almost down to zero. Hyperthermia, sometimes called thermal or heat therapy, is a type of cancer treatment in which body tissue is exposed to high temperatures. Ed was the first patient at the University of Maryland to receive HDR in combination with hyperthermia to treat his prostate cancer. I was the very first person to have this procedure done at the University of Maryland in Baltimore at the Cancer Center to have the thermia heat done on the second session of the HDR bracket therapy, which helps kill more cancer cells, to kill my prostate cancer better. I woke up, I didn't know if I had anything done, but I looked down and I saw some spots or something, and I said, well, I guess I had it done. I was fine through the second one. And here I am today. A second opinion is very, very important for anybody that has prostate cancer.