Table 2.

Thematic Analysis Results

Theme	N(%)	Examples
Equates prostate cancer with BPH	10 (56)	“This benign prostatic hyperplasia, I never heard them say it's not cancer. It is cancer.”
		“… to control the system of prostate cancer … . if it's any infection the medicine can cure it before you go to surgery.”
		“I wish they would have went in to more of the procedures, like the freezing and the radiation pellets that they put in …”
		“… infection for cancer in the penis.”
		“… PSA or some other kind of index of prostate health … the rectal exam thing … I suspect that it is related.”
		“I feel that it gives me more insight as to prostate cancer and treatments, side effects.”
Surgery is to remove cancer	4 (22)	“If it wasn't cancerous, then I wouldn't choose surgery.”
		“I choose it over death. It would be better to have it to rid oneself of it, of cancer if it is a cancerous tumor.”
		“So when I said they took it out then you wouldn't be able to get cancer. So now they say that they don't take it all.”
		“One of the first things we begun thinking about is cancer … try the medication … once the surgery, it's not gonna get any better no matter what.”
BPH leads to cancer	4 (22)	“if you don't do anything to it, you could get cancer.”
		“I have learned if you don't treat … there is a better possibility of cancer starting in the prostate.”
		“… even though the term is benign hyperplasia … nonetheless the real concern underlying this is the big C, that's cancer … maybe it's going to happen here later on.”
		“Some people like myself didn't know nothing about it … Just that it leads to cancer or something.”

BPH, benign prostatic hyperplasia.