Anybody can avail the opportunity of free prostate cancer screenings at the Memorial/LSUHSC Family Medicine Center later this month.
The Memorial Hospital is going to conduct free prostate cancer screenings on 27th and 28th of September, from 1:30 p. m. until 4:30 p. m.
Prostate cancer, the most widely diagnosed cancer among American men after skin cancer, is also the second primary reason of cancer-related death in the country.
Estimates suggest that prostrate cancer will take the lives of as many as 30,000 men during 2011 alone. On an average, a man is diagnosed with this deadly disease every three minutes.
Screening is the only way to detect prostate cancer in its early states as this ailment doesn?t depict any early warning signs.
Men in the age group of 50-75 must have a digital rectal test of the prostate gland plus a prostate specific antigen blood test at least once in a year. Men, whose close family members are already suffered from prostrate cancer, should start screenings at an earlier stage of life because they are more at risk.
According to a study by C. L. Rock of Department of Family & Preventive Medicine by researchers at California University, high consumption of calcium from food and dietary supplements may increase risk of lethal prostate cancer.
Source: http://newspoint.co.za/story/411/1309-memorial-hospital-conduct-free-prostate-cancer-screenings
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