Prostate Awareness Month Highlights Need For Screenings

Month Highlights Need For Screenings (NAPSA)}—Menover age 50 who suspect they may be at risk for prostate cancer are being urged to get screened this month in hopes of preventing the deadly disease. Men over 50 should get regular prostate screenings. The Kidney & Urology Foundation is urging the screenings as part of Prostate Cancer Awareness Month. The disease is the second leading cause of cancer-related death in men, often striking men in the primeof their lives—25 percent of prostate cancer cases occur in men 65 years and younger. Men who havea relative with prostate cancer, are of African- American descent or eat a lot of animalfat are at even greater risk for prostate cancer. If you or someone you knowis experiencing such symptoms as painful urination, an increased need to urinate at night, blood in the urine or semen, or pain and stiffness in the lower back and hips, it may be prostate cancer. It could be another health condition called benign prostatic hyperplasia, or it could simply be an infection. Men who experience symptomslike these should visit a urologist. To learn more about prostate cancer or to find a urologist near you, contact the Kidney & Urology Foundation by visiting www. kidneyurology.com or calling 1800-633-6628. wee eee e eee eee O8t eee e eee eeee Note to Editors: September is Prostate Cancer Awareness Month.