[Hopespringpcsg] PCCN WATERLOO WELLINGTON - MOVEMBER TEAM

[Glen Tolhurst]

Hi all: 
A Movember Team for PCCN Waterloo-Wellington has been set up for 2013.

 

Below is some information on Prostate Cancer (PCa) and how to donate to our
Movember Team.

 

For the Men in Your Life:

-23,600 Canadian men will be diagnosed with PCa in 2013 and 3,900 will die
of the disease

- 1 in 7 men will be diagnosed in their lifetime

-PCa is the most common Ca among Canadian men with rates of PCa in men being
comparable to rates of breast cancer in women

- Over 90% of PCa are curable if detected and treated in earliest stages,
however, 1% of patients diagnosed with PCa will develop deadly metastasis

- 5 to 10% of newly diagnosed PCa involve advanced disease & there is no
cure for advanced PCa

Who are the Men in Your Life? Spouse, significant other, life partner,
father, grandfather, son, brother, uncle, blood relatives, co-workers,
friends, acquaintances

- for men - look in the mirror

Why am I addressing the Men in Your Life?  - men traditionally do not seek
medical attention unless "something hurts" and PCa is painless in early
stages.

- by including women in the discussion the hope is to  have them get men to
think about PCa.

What to do? 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).

Why have a PSA test? 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.

What should you do? 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 2012 916,840 people donated $42.6 Million in
Canada.

Information sources. www.prostatecancercanada.ca  where you can locate
Prostate Support Groups across Canada as well as chapter information at
http://pccn-waterloo-wellington.ca/   http://pccntoronto.ca  and the
Movember web site http://ca.movember.com 

Donate to our local team. As Chair of the Prostate Cancer Canada Network
Waterloo- Wellington chapter, I have registered a team with Movember - 

go to http://moteam.co/pccnwaterloowellington  and click on the "Donate"
tab, then enter team name "PCCNWaterlooWellington" in the "search box, and
click on "Donate to team".

 

Thank you for taking time to read this.

Feel free to pass this on to others.

 

Take care,

 

Glen N.  Tolhurst - Chair PCCN Waterloo Wellington

 

 

 

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