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Welcome to Prostate Cancer Awareness Month
Our council of leading prostate cancer
experts is working to protect the lives of American men by providing lifesaving
prostate cancer screenings. The
Prostate Conditions Education Council (PCEC) - a national organization
committed to men's health and a leader in prostate cancer screening - is once
again coordinating free
or low-cost screenings as part of its national Prostate Cancer Awareness
Week (PCAW) to help encourage men to protect their health.
"Right now, many men are confused about the benefits of
prostate cancer screenings," said Wendy Poage, President of PCEC and
Administrator of Urologic Oncology at the University of Colorado Health
Sciences Center. " We want men to understand that early detection of prostate cancer is important and life saving."
One of the most successfully coordinated cancer screening
programs in history, this year's PCAW will be held September 19-25 and include
screening events at nearly 500 sites across the country. Men can visit http://www.prostateconditions.org/screening-site-finder. Since its inception, PCAW has helped
screen more than four million men.
The PCEC recommends a baseline prostate health assessment,
including Prostate-Specific Antigen (PSA) blood test and a Digital Rectal Exam
(DRE), for all men at 35 years of age and to work with their doctors to
determine a screening schedule that is right for them. Prostate cancer screenings during PCAW
take about 10 minutes and include a PSA blood test and a DRE administered by a
trained professional. Men can also
choose to have their cholesterol and testosterone levels checked, as many
factors play into overall health awareness and a man's risk for prostate
cancer.
"This year, PCAW will screen nearly 125,000 men. These men will not only play an active
role in safe guarding their health, but data collected during these screenings
will help researchers find new and improved ways to address this deadly
disease," said Wendy Poage,
president of PCEC.
In addition to making available essential screening options
for men, PCAW also provides valuable information on research issues key to
eliminating this threat. Most
recently, data from the 2007 and 2008 PCAW screenings, presented at the 2010
annual meeting of the American Urological Society, helped bring to light the
high prevalence of supplement use among American men. Given previous research suggesting an association between
the use of multivitamins and increased risk of advanced prostate cancer, this
data provided crucial insights that will help the research community further
investigate the safety and efficacy of supplementation and its correlation with
prostate cancer. PCAW has also
provided an opportunity to test new screening methods, such as urine analyses
tests.
To find a PCAW screening site near you and for more
information on prostate cancer, please visit http://www.prostateconditions.org or call
toll free 866-4PROST8. You can
also join in the conversation by searching for the Prostate Conditions
Education Council on Facebook or 4prost8health on Twitter.
About Prostate Cancer Awareness Week
Since 1989, PCEC has coordinated national Prostate Cancer
Awareness Week in September. During this time period, the PCEC organizes hundreds of free
or low-cost screening sites for more than 125,000 men across the country. To date, the program has resulted in
more than 4 million screenings. For more information about how PCEC supports community
awareness and education, please visit www.prostateconditions.org.
About Prostate Conditions Education Council
A national organization committed to men's health, the
Prostate Conditions Education Council (PCEC) - formally the Prostate Cancer
Education Council - is the nation's leading resource for information on
prostate health. The PCEC is
dedicated to saving lives through awareness and the education of men, the women
in their lives, as well as the medical community about prostate cancer
prevalence, the importance of early detection, and available treatment options,
as well as other men's health issues. The Council - comprised of a consortium of leading
physicians, health educators, scientists and prostate cancer advocates - aims
to conduct nation wide screenings for men and perform research that will aid in
the detection and treatment of prostate conditions. More information is available at www.prostateconditions.org.
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Prostate Health Recommendations
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PCEC
National Council
| E. David Crawford, M.D.
University of Colorado
David G. McLeod, M.D Walter Reed Army
Neal Shore, M.D.
Grand
Strand Urology
Frank
Staggers, M.D.
NMA
Nelson
N. Stone, M.D.
Mount Sinai
Alan Partin, M.D.
Johns Hopkins
Daniel
Petrylak, M.D.
Columbia-Presbyterian
Wendy Poage, MHA
President, PCEC
Mark Moyad, M.D.
University of
Michigan
Mack Roach, M.D.
University
of Calif. SF
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