Prostate Cancer Education Council Celebrates Father’s Day
Denver, CO (PRWEB) June 17, 2005
On Sunday, June 19, the Prostate Cancer Education Council (PCEC) will celebrate FatherÂ?s Day by educating dads on how to stay alive by preventing prostate cancer. PCEC will post a Web cast, made possible by Aventis, on Advanced Prostate Cancer with council member Daniel Petrylak, M.D. of Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, on its Web site, http://www.pcaw.com.
There are four categories of prostate cancer disease that would be classified as advanced prostate cancer.
Locally Advanced Prostate Cancer is cancer that has grown to fill the prostate or has grown through the prostate and may extend into the glands that help produce semen (seminal vesicles);
Metastatic Prostate Cancer is cancer that has spread (metastasized) to the lymph nodes and/or other parts of the body and bones;
Hormone Refractory Prostate Cancer (HRPC) is prostate cancer that continues to grow despite the suppression of male hormones that fuel the growth of prostate cancer cells;
Prostate Cancer Recurrence (Rising PSA) occurs in men who have been treated for early prostate cancer, but the cancer continues to progress after these initial treatments. Often the cancer cannot be detected in bone scans or with other tests.
The main treatment options for advanced prostate cancer are:
Hormonal therapy;
Treatments for cancer that has spread to the bones;
Salvage radiation therapy;
Chemotherapy;
Adjuvant therapy.
To prevent advanced prostate cancer, PCEC encourages yearly screenings. The only way to detect prostate cancer in its earliest and most curable stage is through early detection and annual prostate cancer screenings. Since the inception of Prostate Cancer Awareness Week (PCAW) in 1989, millions of men have received potentially life-saving screenings. Coordinated by the PCEC, PCAW is a national program that provides free or low-cost prostate cancer screenings to men at more than 500 sites across the United States.
PCEC will also host Web casts on each of the six days of PCAW relating to that specific day. The six days of PCAW are:
Monday, September 19 Â? General Prostate Cancer Awareness Day
Tuesday, September 20 Â? Advanced Prostate Cancer Awareness Day
Wednesday, September 21 Â? Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia (BPH) Awareness Day
Thursday, September 22 Â? Women, Families & Caregivers Day
Friday, September 23 Â? Know Your Numbers (Cholesterol, Testosterone, Obesity & Nutrition) Day
Saturday, September 24 Â? New Horizons (Innovation, Research & Upcoming Treatment Options) Day
For more information or to view the web cast, please visit http://www.pcaw.com.
Contact:
Kelly Lind or Elizabeth Baugher, Freeman Wall Aiello, 303.232.3870
Wendy Poage, Prostate Cancer Education Council, 303.316.4685
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