Prostate cancer research yields hope, disappointment

Michael Izen wrote the book on prostate cancer. And now he’s dying of the disease.
The Vancouver labour-market analyst consultant jokes that he had “softwood lumber” problems and was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2012. He had it removed shortly thereafter, but the aggressive cancer — caused by the defective hereditary gene BRCA2 — always returned.
It spread to his liver, spine and, now, to his brain.
“It’s moved everywhere,” explains 51-year-ol