If there is good news about prostate cancer, it is this: because approximately 90% of all prostate cancers are detected in the early stages, the cure rate for prostate cancer is very high — nearly 100% of men diagnosed at the earliest stage will be disease-free after five years.

Early prostate cancer usually has no symptoms and is most commonly detected through prostate cancer screening tests such as the PSA blood test and digital rectal exam — which is why these exams are so important for men.

Ladies, we invite you to attend "Men’s Health: What Women Need to Know" to find out more about prostate cancer, prostate cancer screenings, and treatment… and PASS IT ON!

Tuesday, June 3
6:30 – 9:00 p.m.
Annenberg Conference Center
Lankenau Hospital
100 Lancaster Avenue
Wynnewood, PA 19096

$10 for Women’s Health Source members/$15 non-members — includes dinner and a gift bag for men. TO REGISTER, call 1-866-CALL-MLH or click here and select "Men's Health: What Women Need to Know" from the list.

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"Men’s Health: What Women Need to Know" will feature three breakout sessions with top experts in our region:

• What is the importance of a prostate exam and how does it work? How can you approach your spouse (or father or brother) with important health issues? Explore these topics with Michael Hagg, MD, Urologic Surgeon, and Joanne Tulin Lane, MD, Internal Medicine.
  
  
• Take a behind-the-scenes look at the latest treatment technology with Albert DeNittis, MD, Radiation Oncologist. You’ll meet the radiation team – physicists, dosimetrists, and technicians – and learn how the technology was developed, how it works and what’s on the horizon.
  
  
• One in six men will develop prostate cancer and in 5 to 10 percent of these men, it will be hereditary. Rachael Brandt, MS, CGC, Genetic Counselor, will discuss hereditary cancer and research initiatives to identify and treat people at increased risk.

More facts about prostate cancer from the Prostate Cancer Foundation:

• Prostate cancer is the most common non-skin cancer in America.
• One in six American men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer.
• A man is 35% more likely to develop prostate cancer than a woman is to develop breast cancer.
• In 2008, more than 186,000 American men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer. That’s one new case every 2.5 minutes.
• In 2008, more than 28,000 American men will die from prostate cancer. That’s one death every 19 minutes.
• Approximately 2 million American men currently have prostate cancer.
• A non-smoking man is more likely to develop prostate cancer than he is to develop colon, bladder, melanoma, lymphoma and kidney cancer combined.

TO REGISTER, call 1-866-CALL-MLH or click here and select "Men's Health: What Women Need to Know" from the list.