“Me encontraron càncer en la pròstata,” my father told me. “They found cancer in my prostate.”

As a cancer researcher^[1] who knows very well about the high incidence and decreased survival rates of prostate cancer in the Caribbean^[2], I anguished over these words. Even though I study cancer in my day job, I struggled to take in this news. At the time, all I could muster in response was, “What did the doctor...