How you can help prevent prostate cancer

How you can help prevent
PROSTATE CANCER

Your Self chec Keeping Healthy Guide

Although screening can find prostate cancer at an early stage when treatment is more likely to be successful, the medical community is still not sure if the potential benefits of screening outweigh the possible risks if something is found. It is very important to check with your doctor so you can make an educated decision about what you need to do given your age and own personal health history.

What to do

Beginning at age 40, if you have a family history of prostate cancer or are African-American, you should get a Prostate-Specific Antigen (PSA) and Digital Rectal Exam (DRE) yearly.

If you have no family history, Beginning at age 50, ask your doctor for information about these tests and if you should have them.

IMPORTANT: The information on the cancer pages of this site was culled by the director of Self chec and initially reviewed by the folks at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, based on the newest information from the national cancer advisory organizations, including, but not limited to, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force and American Cancer Society. We recognize that the national cancer advisory organizations sometimes do not agree about specific cancer guidelines, often making it confusing to the public about what to do. That is why we are asking you to err on the side of caution by always consulting a healthcare professional to advise you in the healthy choices you will make. Thank you.

Join the conversation about Prostate Cancer:

joan
September 13th, 2010 at 6:46 pm

WHAT HARRY BELAFONTE, RUDY GIULIANI, HAMILTON JORDAN & ARNOLD PALMER HAVE IN COMMON & ARE NOW SAYING…

“Most men, once they are diagnosed with prostate cancer, live with it for a long time. It’s like breast cancer in that way–something they are dealing with for a long time.” –Harry Belafonte

“I was fortunate … due to the fact that I caught it early it was confined in my prostate. I had the surgery. There’s a debate about what you should do. One of reasons that we’re hearing about so many people — Norman Schwarzkopf, Joe Torre, Rudy Giuliani — having prostate cancer is because this test, this PSA test, detects this disease at a very early and curable stage.” –Hamilton Jordan (former Carter White House chief of staff)

“A 10-minute test could save his life. It certainly saved mine.” Rudolph W. Giuliani, former Mayor of New York

matt
March 15th, 2011 at 3:12 pm

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