Health care professionals point to several factors which they say may be determinant factors as to why African American males tend to be affected more disproportionately than other groups. Those factors include lack of access to adequate medical treatment, fear and distrust of medical professionals, high animal fat intake in their diets, and genetics. Many African American males also take issue with the prostate exam itself. The actual digital rectum exam requires that a healthcare professional conduct the exam by inserting a gloved finger into the rectum to feel for any hard, lumpy, or abnormal areas in the prostate, and takes just a few minutes to complete. The prostate gland is a firm partly chestnut sized gland in males at the neck of the urethra which produces a viscid secretion th...
When the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force released its new recommendations for health screening, Republicans immediately tried to link the findings with health care reform proposed by Democrats. This is how rationing starts," said Sen. Jon Kyl of Arizona, a designated party attack dog on the subject who accurately reflected his party's stance as it sought to derail Saturday's preliminary vote on the Senate Democrats' bill.
On Saturday, Dec. 11, the Midwest Medical Center in partnership with the Jo Daviess County Health Department will be offering a variety of health screening tests. This will be done at the first floor meeting room of the hospital from 7:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. A change from the usual monthly screening is the opportunity for all men over 40 to have a prostate screening test based on the recommendation of the Jo Daviess County Cancer Coalition. Participants may have this testing done for $24 without needing to fast prior. They may also do this without the usual requirement of cholesterol testing.
I would like to direct this letter to Dr. Gott: Women are urged to have an annual pap smear, yet rarely if ever are they told to have an annual CA125 blood test. This is a simple test to screen for uterine or ovarian cancer. The pap smear does not do this. When I was diagnosed with stage 3C uterine cancer, my pap smear was normal. Althea Horner, Sierra Madre
January is Cervical Health Awareness Month. The West Virginia Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening Program, a program dedicated to helping low-income, uninsured or underinsured women receive free or low-cost Pap tests, encourages women to schedule their routine Pap test during January or to talk with their doctors about when it is right for them to be screened. Screening guidelines published in December 2009 by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists suggest that Pap tests should begin at age 21, regardless of a woman's sexual history, and that a woman should have a Pap test every two years, instead of every year. ACOG also recommends that a woman 30 years and older who has had no history of cervical cancer and has had three normal Pap tests in a row can be screened ever...
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