Breakfast talk to offer prostate cancer prevention tips

Posted September 30, 2011 12:00 am

Submitted by St. Joseph Hospital

Prostate cancer is treatable and beatable. One man in six will get prostate cancer in his lifetime, and of those, one man in 35 will die from the disease.

All men are invited to Provena St. Joseph Hospital’s Bob and Edna Meadows Regional Cancer Care Center for a Man-to-Man Talk on Prostate Cancer presented by prostate cancer specialist, Dr. David Suh. There are two sessions, 9 a. m. and 10 a.m., Saturday, Oct. 8 at Bob and Edna Meadows Regional Cancer Care Center at Provena St. Joseph Hospital, 77 N. Airlite St., Elgin.

Learn more about prostate cancer and how to prevent it. Find out how prostate cancer is detected and the treatment options available today.

Breakfast will be served. PSA screening, a blood draw, will follow each lecture and results will be sent to you.

Please call (847) 931-1800 from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday to register. Space fills up quickly, call soon.

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