Nathaniel Trives, 75, receives a radiation treatment on the Varian Linear Accelerator at Kaiser Permanente on Sunset Blvd. in Los Angeles on Friday, April 30, 2010. Trives had prostate cancer surgery in 1997. Well after 13 years his PSA has risen from 0.00 to 0.24 which would be nothing if he had a Prostate Gland. But since he don't, the Urologists felt that it would be wise to take an aggressive preventative medicine approach and eradicate any possible threat of cancer in the area by use of radiation therapy. Trives therapy takes place at 7:30am five days a week through May 14, 2010, and will receive a total 39 treatments. He is a member of the Santa Monica 2010 Relay for Life Committee and the committee is putting up a link on their website urging support of him in his fight against possible recurring cancer.
Trives has dedicated his life to helping others and he has come to be known as 'Mr. Santa Monica,' a Man of Many Hats; because of the high number of roles he fills or has filled in our community from police officer to Mayor of Santa Monica to College Administrator. He currently serves on countless boards and community organizations. Nat has done it all. Nathaniel Trives is a family man, married to his childhood sweetheart Ida and father of the talented linguist, Dr. Toni Trives, professor of Spanish at Santa Monica College.