Ben Stiller Reveals How He Found out He Had Cancer Even Though He Had No Symptoms

by Laura Donovan

''Actor Ben Stiller just revealed that taking a blood test two years ago may have saved his life, as it led to a cancer diagnosis for which he displayed zero symptoms.

The 50-year-old actor wrote in a Medium post on Tuesday that he discovered he had prostate cancer in 2014 after an internist suggested he take a prostate specific antigen (PSA) test, a blood test that screens for prostate cancer. The National Cancer Institute states that many doctors used to recommend that men get the screening at age 50, but that PSA tests have become controversial in recent years because of potential risks and misreads that may come with the screening process...''