Taking A Proactive Approach Toward Prostate Care

JUNE IS MEN’S HEALTH MONTH

PLEASE JOIN US AT BAY STATE CHIROPRACTIC ON JUNE 16TH @ 6 PM FOR A WORKSHOP ON:

Recognizing and preventing men’s health problems is not just a man’s issue.
Because of its impact on wives, mothers, daughters, and sisters, men’s health is truly a family issue.”

QUICK FACTS

• The American Cancer Society recommends that most men get a prostate test beginning at age 50. Men at high risk, such as African-American men and men with a strong family history, should begin testing at age 45.
• Benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) affects 433,216 people in the U.S. each year and caused 430 deaths in 1999. It also accounts for 350,000 to 400,000 operations per year in America.
• There were 218,890 new cases of prostate cancer and 27,050 prostate cancer-related deaths in the United States in 2006.
• It is estimated that approximately $8 billion is spent on prostate cancer treatment each year in the U.S.