Former KATU reporter and anchor Lincoln Graves came back to the station to talk about his cancer journey.

Saying he had surgery in March, he told anchor Helen Raptis that he is hopeful “it’s gone forever” and that he has to monitor his health to make sure it doesn’t return.

Graves said it all started when got a prostate infection in 2019. Some of the symptoms didn’t go away and his PSA test remained elevated. He got a clean bill of health and moved to Salt Lake City. After checking with doctors, a lesion was spotted by an MRI and he was diagnosed with Cancer in November.

Approximately 1 in 8 men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer during their lifetime. Graves said he wanted to remind men, and those who love them, to know the risk factors, the symptoms and to get regular checkups.