Echo Community Health Care to Host Free Prostate Cancer Screening
Posted on: Thursday, 9 June 2005, 21:00 CDT
ECHO Community Health Care will host Free Prostate Screening Day from 1 to 5 p.m. June 17 at 501 John St.
The event will include a variety of screenings in addition to the PSA (prostate-specific antigen) blood test and digital rectal exam to detect prostate cancer. Other available screenings will include cholesterol, blood sugar, HIV and blood pressure.
Health risk appraisals, hair cuts and social work services will be offered, and the Evansville Cancer Center will provide prostate cancer information.
"It's just a community service ECHO likes to provide, and we typically do this twice a year, six months apart," said Pamela Anderson, a nurse and ECHO health promotion coordinator.
Although the PSA test and prostate exam typically are geared toward men older than 40, Anderson said men of any age are welcome to attend. Appointments are recommended, but walk-ins will be accommodated as time allows.
Prostate cancer screening is "very important" to men's health, Anderson said.
"At our last health fair I think we identified six gentlemen who had elevated PSA results, and then we had them go for further evaluation," she said. "It seems like every health fair we do, we find some people who really need the service."
The American Cancer Society estimates 232,090 new cases of prostate cancer will be diagnosed in the United States this year. One in six men will develop the disease during his lifetime, according to the society, and one in 33 will die as a result.
Source: Evansville Courier & Press
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