Prostate cancer is extremely treatable…if caught in time.
Now there is a new way for the testing to come to you.
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Mt. Sinai Hospital Service’s new mobile cancer unit
(Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai/Tisch Cancer Center)
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The bus, known as The Mount Sinai Robert F. Smith Mobile Prostate Cancer Screening Unit, will visit New York City medical-research” target=”_blank”>neighborhoods< who has decided to contribute the majority of his wealth to philanthropic causes. He donated nearly $4 million to put the bus on the streets, saying that he did so to make sure that “we do not continue to lose far too many husbands, fathers, uncles, brothers, sons and friends to this disease.”
Robert F. Smith (center) joins Steve Harvey, Chris Tucker and Cedric the Entertainer and members of the Mount Sinai Health System to cut the ribbon of the mobile cancer unit.
(Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai/Tisch Cancer Center)
“It is unconscionable that in our great country and at this moment of technical breakthrough, Black Americans are still subject to staggeringly worse health care outcomes. We can fix this,” he said.
Doctors advise that all men over 55 years of age, and Black men over 45, should consider prostate screening. It can involve a simple blood test to determine the PSA number, known as a baseline prostate-specific antigen, that can indicate the presence of prostate cancer or inflammation with elevated numbers.
Noted names who have been diagnosed with prostate cancer have ranged from former Secretary of State John Kerry to golfer Arnold Palmer, Major League Baseball icon Joe Torre to musician Frank Zappa, among others.
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African American men who have been diagnosed include Harry Belafonte, the late former Secretary of State Colin Powell, Major League Baseball legend Ken Griffey Sr. and “Today Show” weatherman and personality Al Roker, who has helped spread the word about the bus with Dr. Tewari after his own diagnosis and successful treatment.
Fox Business Senior Correspondent Charlie Gasparino has recently gone public with his prostate cancer battle and surgery.
Robert F. Smith with Dr. Ash Tewari and Chris Tucker in front of the mobile cancer unit.
(Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai/Tisch Cancer Center)
“I’ve been having rising PSA levels for the last year or two years,” he said before he was diagnosed. “A lot of men don’t want to deal with it and they don’t deal with it until it’s too late.”
“Take action, listen to your doctors and don’t be afraid.”
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The American Cancer Society says more than 3 million men in the U.S. have been diagnosed with the disease and that it causes more than 34,000 deaths a year.
The message on the side of the Mount Sinai bus says it all: “Do it for you. Do it for them. Catch Prostate Cancer early.”
For more information visit: www.mountsiani.org/care/cancer.services/prostate.mobile-screening
