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Lauded Denver sportscaster Vic Lombardi in the Altitude Sports studios. Lombardi hasn\u2019t been shy about sharing updates about his fight with prostate cancer \u2013 or about advocating for cancer screening and preventative care. (Photo courtesy of Altitude Sports)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There\u2019s a humorist in every great sports journalist. Humorists tap into the deeper truths of the human condition in ways most of us can\u2019t, and it\u2019s a big reason why they\u2019re funny. Disease weaves itself through the human condition.<\/p>\n

So when Vic Lombardi \u2013 2018 Colorado Sportscaster of the Year and a 32-time Emmy award winner \u2013 received a prostate cancer diagnosis, he didn\u2019t just go public to help other men spot the disease early. He went public with his usual wit.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had no idea what a prostate was. I thought the prostate was in the kneecap,\u201d he said. \u201cIn television, a PSA is a public-service announcement.\u201d<\/p>\n

As it has turned out, one scary PSA \u2013 Lombardi\u2019s first prostate-specific antigen test \u2013 triggered an avalanche of informative PSAs: Twitter posts, podcasts, and the UCHealth\u2013Kroenke Sports & Entertainment \u201cGimme 5ive<\/a>\u201d campaign for cancer screening and disease prevention.<\/p>\n

Lombardi\u2019s cancer story started with another cancer story: that of U.S. Hockey hall of famer Ed Olczyk. In December 2018, Olczyk, now a popular hockey announcer, was a guest on Lombardi\u2019s Altitude Sports Radio 92.5 FM morning show. They talked hockey, but Olczyk\u2019s greater purpose was to discuss his fight with colon cancer (he was in remission by then) and raise awareness for colonoscopy screening. While Olczyk described himself as having been blindsided by the diagnosis \u2013 he had been, in his mind, young and healthy \u2013 it dawned on Lombardi that he felt the same way about himself, and that he should get a physical.<\/p>\n

Numbers up<\/strong><\/h3>\n

A couple of weeks later, Lombardi was in a doctor\u2019s office for a checkup. He was still 49 and technically shy of the half-century threshold at which the American Cancer Society advocates taking the prostate cancer blood test. But he was close enough that they did one.<\/p>\n

The PSA test result came back high enough to raise concern, and it would have come back higher yet had Lombardi not been taking finasteride \u2013 the active ingredient in Propecia \u2013 to make sure his hair stayed worthy of the small screen. Finasteride is also prescribed to shrink an enlarged prostate and can roughly halve a PSA result.<\/p>\n

Lombardi\u2019s primary care physician referred him to the urologic oncology team<\/a> at UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital<\/a> at the Anschutz Medical Campus<\/a> (UCH). Dr. Paul Maroni<\/a> took the lead. A biopsy found an aggressive form of prostate cancer (Lombardi\u2019s Gleason score<\/a> was nine out of 10). Lombardi thus joined the 175,000 men diagnosed<\/a> each year with prostate cancer in the United States alone.<\/p>\n

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Vic Lombardi, right, points out his scars during a podcast with UCHealth and CU School of Medicine urologic oncologist Dr. Paul Maroni, whose robotic surgery led to those scars. (Photo courtesy of Vic Lombardi via YouTube)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Prostate cancer is tricky to treat. Its growth can be so slow that \u201cwatching and waiting\u201d is the best course \u2013 not something doctors or patients would consider for any other sort of cancer. But even serious cases leave major decisions up to the patient. Prostatectomy \u2013 surgical removal \u2013 can lead to long-term incontinence and sexual dysfunction, so some men opt for a combination of hormone therapy and targeted radiation treatments instead. For Lombardi, the choice was clear.<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause of the aggressiveness of the cancer \u2013 it was a mean sucker \u2013 I was no-holds-barred, let\u2019s get this thing out,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Still, he marveled in quiet horror that this invader had taken up residence below his belt and seemed hellbent on bashing through the doors of neighboring organs without betraying even the slightest symptom to him, the host. He assumed he was in good hands and that the surgery would work out, but the idea of his wife and three kids having to move forward without him decades earlier than he had blithely assumed would be the case did cross his mind. There was no way the seasoned journalist could kennel his curiosity to heed Maroni\u2019s suggestion to avoid internet searches such as \u201cprostatectomy side effects\u201d or \u201cstage 3 prostate cancer survival rates.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe toughest part is what happens in the head,\u201d Lombardi said.<\/p>\n

Enter the robot<\/strong><\/h3>\n

On Feb. 27, Maroni scrubbed in and sat down at the controls of a Da Vinci<\/a> surgical robot in a dimly lit operating room. Lombardi lay on a table a few feet behind him. Thick wires conveyed Maroni\u2019s motions into jitterless action through which his robotic proxy sliced, ablated and sutured. Maroni had done about a thousand similar surgeries, he estimates. With robotic surgery, it\u2019s easier to see, it\u2019s easier to stitch, there\u2019s very little blood loss, and patients recover faster, Maroni says.<\/p>\n

Three-and-a half-hours later, the surgery was over. It had gone well. Lombardi called it \u201cthe best four hours of sleep I\u2019ve gotten in years.\u201d<\/p>\n

There were minor complications. A broken stitch sent him back to the hospital the next day. For a few weeks, incontinence was real. This, too, was more a psychological as physical burden for Lombardi, a seriously fit recreational athlete.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll of a sudden I can\u2019t hold my pee? It was a real shot to the face,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Just as he had shared the process of his prostate cancer diagnosis and treatment with his 86,000 Twitter<\/a> followers, so too he shared the ups and downs of recovery. He dedicated a short YouTube video<\/a> to his having peed a hotel bed after getting his first postsurgical PSA test result and having subsequently downed celebratory wine and bourbon.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve never been so proud of peeing the bed in my life,\u201d he says in the video, which he filmed on his phone in the bed in question. \u201cProbably because it\u2019s not my bed. Sorry, hotel.\u201d<\/p>\n

Word out<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Lombardi launched a YouTube channel<\/a> dedicated to interviewing prostate cancer experts and survivors. The \u201cVic Lombardi Cancer Awareness Podcast,\u201d as he calls it, has so far included interviews with Maroni<\/a>, UCHealth Executive Director of Oncology Services Jamie Bachman<\/a>, UCHealth urologic oncologist David Crawford<\/a>, survivors such as Denver Post<\/em> sports editor Scott Monserud<\/a> and former Denver Broncos punter Bucky Dilts<\/a>, and others.<\/p>\n

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Vic Lombardi\u2019s social media posts about his prostate cancer diagnosis and treatment led to UCHealth and Kroenke Sports & Entertainment\u2019s collaboration on the \u201cGimme 5ive\u201d campaign to raise awareness of preventable diseases and those such as prostate cancer that can be extinguished if caught early.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s just as much for me as it is for anybody else with this disease. Talking it out is almost therapeutic in my world,\u201d Lombardi said. \u201cI want to know how a fellow prostate cancer patient found out, how he eats, how he sleeps, how he was treated, how he is doing.\u201d<\/p>\n

UCHealth took notice and, in collaboration with Altitude Sports<\/a>‘ owner Kroenke Sports & Entertainment, launched the \u201cGimme 5ive\u201d campaign. Sports fans are the focus \u2013 UCHealth is the official health care provider of KSE\u2019s Denver Nuggets<\/a>, Colorado Avalanche<\/a>, and Colorado Mammoth<\/a>. The idea is for Lombardi\u2019s followers and their followers (and so on) to coax five friends, family or coworkers to get screened for cancer as well as take steps to counter preventable diseases.<\/p>\n

As part of the campaign, Lombardi, the Nuggets or the Avs send out a reminder about a common health issue on the fifth of each month. On Oct. 5, they\u2019ll mention that UCHealth Primary Care<\/a> will be providing up to 150 flu shots to Avs 5K participants and spectators.<\/p>\n

Lombardi is now cancer-free. Maroni is keeping tabs. The most recent PSA test, in September, came back clean. The odds of Lombardi\u2019s cancer returning in the next 10 years are greater than 50-50. But, Maroni said, \u201cI think there\u2019s a decent chance that he\u2019s been cured.\u201d<\/p>\n

PSA tests like the one Ed Olczyk\u2019s advocacy triggered will keep coming. If the numbers climb, radiation treatment will knock them back down again, and a man who has covered countless battles will resume fighting his own. In the meantime, he\u2019s feeling good, spreading the word, talking sports, and making people laugh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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So when Vic Lombardi \u2013 2018 Colorado Sportscaster of the Year and a 32-time Emmy award 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