Longtime SportsCenter anchor Jay Harris announced he has prostate cancer.

"I'm having surgery on Tuesday," Harris, 60, said during the Thursday, June 5, episode of Good Morning America . "I'll be away from SportsCenter for about a month to recover. And then I'm coming back better than ever."

Harris, who has worked at ESPN since 2003, said his doctor is "quite optimistic" about his diagnosis.

"Per my last scan, nothing has spread," Harris revealed. "So once we take out the prostate, hopefully that will be it. That's the goal."

In sharing the news, Harris said he hopes his story inspires other men to be proactive in discussing their own health matters.

"We don't talk," he said. "I was on a golf trip with some buddies of mine. We were just sitting around talking about things that

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