The Get Checked Update from The Prostate Conditions Education Council

Get Checked Update

Prostate Conditions Education Council

April 2010

PCEC would like to thank all of the hospitals, clinics, physicians, nurses and countless volunteers who participate in the Prostate Conditions Education Council's Prostate Cancer Awareness Week early detection program! Your support, hard work and dedication, has helped to screen nearly 5 million men in the last 20 years and has helped reduce the deaths due to prostate cancer by 60%.

We would also like to extend a special note of appreciation to those who participate as Longitudinal Study Site Partners. Data and stored blood serum from your early detection events have helped PCEC and our Council physicians to advance research efforts on new and more sensitive biomarkers for prostate cancer. It is our goal to continue to contribute to research and provide our unique services to finding improved detection methods, which eliminate unnecessary biopsies and help develop tools to determine aggressive cancers from non-aggressive disease.

PCEC has had more than 10 abstracts accepted at national medical meetings, in the last two years! At the 2010 AUA meeting we hope you will watch for the following presentations on PCEC research.

Prevalence and Predictors of Supplement Use in a Population of Adult Men: A Potential Concern

Total Testosterone Not Associated With Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms in a Prostate Cancer Screening Population

Use of a 1.5 PSA Threshold to Identify Increased Risk for Prostate Cancer in a Screening Population

Association of Statin Use to Serum Prostate Specific Antigen Levels in a Screening Population

Also, watch for our most recent publication from PCAW on statins and PSA, pending publication in Urology.

"Knowledge comes by eyes always open and working hands;
there is no knowledge that is not power"
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

Benefits of Screening with PCEC

PCEC encourages you to continue to offer prostate health screenings in your Community, in order to keep up our important mission to raise awareness and educate men and the people in their lives on prostate health issues! If your organization hasn't participated in a while or has never participated, we are asking you to initiate a Prostate Health Screening Event in the future! PCEC will help your organization with your event!

Screening Site Benefits Include:

Community Outreach/Support Services

Marketing Support

Low Cost PSA Processing and other men's health issues

Screening supplies for FREE *for eligible sites

Participation in Research Studies

Final Reports at the conclusion of your event

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