EDITORIAL
READERS WRITE
Men: Get tested this month for prostate cancer
September is Prostate Cancer
Awareness month and is a time
for men ages 40 and over to get
tested. The test is called the Prostate
Specific Antigen test, better
known as the PSA test.
Prostate Cancer is 99 percent
curable when caught early. It is
estimated by the American Cancer
Society that in 2019 there will
be 174,650 men diagnosed with
Prostate Cancer, an increase of
6 percent over 2018. There will
be an estimate of 31,620 deaths of
this disease which is an increase
of 7 percent over 2018.
I can attest to the value of getting
tested. I had a physical four
years ago by my doctor, who discovered
my PSA was on the high
side. She then sent me to a specialist
who discovered I had an
aggressive prostate cancer and
required an aggressive surgery.
These doctors truly had saved my
life.
Four years later, my PSA is
low and I am cancer-free. My advice
to all men is get tested.
Frederick R. Bedell Jr.,
Glen Oaks Village
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KUDOS FOR KOSCIUSZKO
Critics of Governor Andrew Cuomo were quick
to say he went over the top during last week’s
opening of the second span of the Kosciuszko
Bridge with a laser light show featuring a simulcast
of Billy Joel singing “New York State of
Mind” from Madison Square Garden.
We disagree.
When you complete an $873 million project to
replace an 80-year-old relic that was treacherously
outdated a full four years ahead of schedule
and on budget, while keeping traffic moving in
both directions during the duration of construction,
we see that as a modern miracle.
When you factor in the project supported nearly
11,300 jobs in construction and related fields
in the New York City metropolitan region while
producing five Queens travel lanes and four
Brooklyn-bound lanes along with a 20-foot-wide
bike lane and pedestrian path with unmatched
views of the manhattan skyline, the Governor
could have trotted out the Rockettes to perform
a kickline on the new span and it would have
been fitting.
The new K-Bridge is a modern cable
suspension bridge. It replaces the old one that
was built for 10,000 cars a day and was falling to
pieces under the stress of handling 200,000 cars
a day in recent years. Plus each lane was only 10
feet wide.
They are now 12 feet wide so truck and SUVs
have more room to operate and there is now
shoulders so broken down vehicles can pull
out of traffic and not snarl it further. Plus, the
Governor says the new K-Bridge will reduce
traffic by 65 percent.
Cuomo is proving that big time infrastructure
projects can be executed in the Big City without
bringing things to a screeching halt.
He is rebuilding LaGuardia Airport and will
tackle JFK International next. Cuomo is adding
a second and third track to the Long Island Rail
Road and will build a new full service train station
near Belmont Park, where a $1.3 billion redevelopment
project will build a 19,000 seat hockey
arena that will be home to the New York Islanders,
as well as a new hotel and retail complex.
Cuomo even has traffic moving pretty well
through the Kew Gardens Interchange during
its reconstruction, and that is something
that generations of Queens motorists have
considered impossible.
Let the man enjoy his laser light shows when
he completes huge infrastructure on budget and
years early. Those are things worth celebrating.
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