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James Cancer Hospital offering free prostate screenings, June 13
COLUMBUS: Ohio State’s James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research
Institute is offering free prostate cancer screenings from 8
a.m. to 4 p.m. on Friday, June 13, 2008, in the hospital’s first
floor clinic at 300 West 10th Ave.
Registration is recommended. Appointments can be scheduled by
calling The James Line at
1-800-293-5066. Annual screenings are recommended if you
are: age 50 or older; age 45 or older and African-American; or
age 40 or older with a family history of prostate cancer.
The free screening will consist of a
digital rectal exam and a prostate-specific antigen blood
test. Complimentary garage parking is provided.
Prostate cancer is the most common
cancers in men, but it is also one of the most curable if
detected early. The American Cancer Society estimates that more
than 186,000 men in the United States will develop prostate
cancer and more than 28,000 will die from it this year. Yearly
exams are recommended for many men as one way of detecting the
disease at a stage when it can be treated successfully. |
