Commissioner James (Jim) Porter underwent his final round of injection treatments Wednesday.

“Yesterday was a day to celebrate,” Porter said. “Until someone tells you, ‘you have cancer’ you don’t know what it’s like. It gets your attention real quick. But yesterday was a good day.”

Porter was diagnosed with prostate cancer in the spring of 2016. He had surgery and began a roughly 40-day stint of radiation. After undergoing radiation, his doctors started him on injection treatments and hormone treatment pills to prevent the increase or spread of cancer.

As of Wednesday, Porter’s doctors seem to be confident that he will start to regain his strength and be fully back to “normal” in about a year.

“It kicks your butt occasionally, there’s no doubt about it,” he said. “But, again, there’s lots of other folks out there dealing with the same situation and worse situations.”

He cannot stress enough, the importance of men 50 and older getting an annual PSA test.

“There’s no doubt that it (PSA Test) saved my life,” Porter said.