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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-CA link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hi all: <br>A Movember Team for PCCN Waterloo-Wellington has been set up for 2013.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Below is some information on Prostate Cancer (PCa) and how to donate to our Movember Team.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='color:red'>For the Men in Your Life:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>-23,600 Canadian men will be diagnosed with PCa in 2013 and 3,900 will die of the disease<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- 1 in 7 men will be diagnosed in their lifetime<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>-PCa is the most common Ca among Canadian men with rates of PCa in men being comparable to rates of breast cancer in women<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Over 90% of PCa are curable if detected and treated in earliest stages, however, 1% of patients diagnosed with PCa will develop deadly metastasis<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- 5 to 10% of newly diagnosed PCa involve advanced disease & there is no cure for advanced PCa<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='color:red'>Who are the Men in Your Life?</span></b><span lang=EN-US> Spouse, significant other, life partner, father, grandfather, son, brother, uncle, blood relatives, co-workers, friends, acquaintances<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- for men – look in the mirror<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='color:red'>Why am I addressing the Men in Your Life?</span></b><span lang=EN-US> - men traditionally do not seek medical attention unless “something hurts” and PCa is painless in early stages.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- by including women in the discussion the hope is to have them get men to think about PCa.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='color:red'>What to do?</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='color:red'> </span><span lang=EN-US>Starting at age 40 men should get a PSA test to establish a baseline reference level (PSA test “Prostate Specific Antigen” measures a protein in the blood produced by prostate tissue & it’s a blood sample drawn from the arm).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='color:red'>Why have a PSA test?</span></b><span lang=EN-US> Experienced urologists say that before PSA tests the vast majority of patients with PCa already had metastasis by the time they were diagnosed. Today, only about 20% of those diagnosed with PCa have it spread outside the prostate partly because PSA tests provide early warning. The PSA test is the only test currently available for early detection of PCa before the disease could potentially spread, become incurable, & fatal. The overall PCa death rate has declined by 40% during the time the test has been widely used.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='color:red'>What should you do?</span></b><span lang=EN-US> Convince the “men in your life” to get a PSA test starting at age 40 to establish a baseline and at age 50 begin annual PSA monitoring. Go to the Movember web site if you wish to support PCa awareness, education, survivorship, and research by asking a man to grow a moustache and/ or donating. In<span style='color:#1F497D'> </span>201<span style='color:#1F497D'>2</span> 916,840 people donated<span style='color:#1F497D'> </span>$42.6 Million in Canada.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='color:red'>Information sources</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='color:red'>.</span><span lang=EN-US> <a href="http://www.prostatecancercanada.ca">www.prostatecancercanada.ca</a> where you can locate Prostate Support Groups across Canada as well as<span style='color:#1F497D'> </span>chapter information at<span style='color:#1F497D'> <a href="http://pccn-waterloo-wellington.ca/">http://pccn-waterloo-wellington.ca/</a> </span> <a href="http://pccntoronto.ca">http://pccntoronto.ca</a> and the Movember web site <a href="http://ca.movember.com">http://ca.movember.com</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='color:red'>Donate to our local team.</span></b><span lang=EN-US> As Chair of the Prostate Cancer Canada Network Waterloo- Wellington chapter, I have registered a team with Movember – <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>go to <a href="http://moteam.co/pccnwaterloowellington">http://moteam.co/pccnwaterloowellington</a> and click on the “Donate” tab, then enter team name “PCCNWaterlooWellington” in the “search box, and click on “Donate to team”.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Thank you for taking time to read this.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Feel free to pass this on to others.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Take care,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Glen N. Tolhurst – Chair PCCN Waterloo Wellington<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>