It’s Prostate Cancer Awareness month, which means it’s a great time to get checked for prostate cancer.
Ed Long is with the Prostate Cancer Canada Network and stresses things have changed for the better in the last fifteen years.
“Doctors can now be more confident that if there is a spot of prostate cancer it will be found because of the new diagnosis,” says Long, “If it’s found it can be followed, so if there’s changes in it they’ll be able to tell.”
He tells us that men in their 50’s or with a family history of prostate issues should get the PSA blood test.
“Your father, your brother…if someone like that, very close to you, was diagnosed with prostate cancer you’d start before that because we’ve had men in their 40’s diagnosed with prostate cancer.”
One out of every seven men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer, and eleven people die from the disease every day.