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		</div><p>Hollywood star Ben Stiller has revealed he was diagnosed with prostate cancer but is now cancer-free.</p>
<p>The Zoolander star was diagnosed with a growing tumour in 2014 and now wants to share his story in support of the controversial test that saved his life.</p>
<p>In an essay on the website Medium, Stiller described the moment of his diagnosis as “a classic Walter White moment, except I was me, and no one was filming anything at all”.</p>
<p>He wrote: “I got diagnosed with prostate cancer Friday, June 13 2014. On September 17 of that year I got a test back telling me I was cancer free. The three months in between were a crazy roller coaster ride with which about 180,000 men a year in America can identify.”</p>
<p>He said straight after he was diagnosed he immediately researched high-profile men who had survived and died of the disease.</p>
<p>He added: “As I learned more about my disease (one of the key learnings is not to Google “people who died of prostate cancer” immediately after being diagnosed with prostate cancer), I was able to wrap my head around the fact that I was incredibly fortunate. Fortunate because my cancer was detected early enough to treat. And also because my internist gave me a test he didn’t have to.</p>
<p>“Taking the PSA test (prostate-specific antigen test) saved my life. Literally. That’s why I am writing this now.”</p>
<p>Stiller said he was not offering a scientific point of view on the test but said without it he would not have been diagnosed as quickly as he was.<br />
He wrote: “The bottom line for me: I was lucky enough to have a doctor who gave me what they call a “baseline” PSA test when I was about 46. I have no history of prostate cancer in my family and I am not in the high-risk group, being neither?- to the best of my knowledge? – of African or Scandinavian ancestry. I had no symptoms.</p>
<p>“What I had?- and I’m healthy today because of it? – ?was a thoughtful internist who felt like I was around the age to start checking my PSA level, and discussed it with me.</p>
<p>“If he had waited, as the American Cancer Society recommends, until I was 50, I would not have known I had a growing tumor until two years after I got treated. If he had followed the US Preventive Services Task Force guidelines, I would have never gotten tested at all, and not have known I had cancer until it was way too late to treat successfully.”</p>
<p>The actor said the test is criticised because it can lead to unnecessary “over-treatment” but argued men should at least be given the option so they stand a chance of early detection.</p>
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