Andrew Young Released From Hospital After Cancer Surgery In Atlanta

Jet, Jan 17, 2000

Former Atlanta mayor and U.N. ambassador Andrew Young was released from the hospital following what his doctor called successful surgery to remove his Andrew Young cancerous prostate gland.

Young, 67, was in good spirits as he left Emory University Hospital in Atlanta. His doctors said Young is on course for a full recovery.

The newly named president of the National Council of Churches, Young persuaded his doctors to let him leave the hospital on foot.

"I came in here walking and I want to go out walking," Young said. "Now I want to go home, relax, watch football and not have any visitors for a while."

Dr. Fray Marshall, chief of urology, said there was no sign the cancer had spread beyond his prostate. Young will be monitored and, if toxicology tests remain clear over the next year, he could be declared cured.

Young was diagnosed in September last year. He made his condition public to encourage middle-age men, especially Black men, to have regular prostate screenings (JET, Nov. 1, 1999).

"Just as women ought to go have a pap smear, men ought to go regularly and have their prostate checked," he reiterated.