Free Prostate Cancer Screening Offered At N.D. State Fair (MINOT, ND)—Men who attend the 2007 North Dakota State Fair will have an opportunity to be checked for prostate cancer, and it won’t cost them a dime. U.S. Senator Kent Conrad and Trinity Health are teaming up with the Cancer Research and Prevention Foundation to offer free prostate cancer screenings each day of the fair, which runs July 20-28. The screenings will be available from 1 to 8 p.m. in the Commercial III exhibit building, located southwest of the Grandstand near Gate D. “Early detection of prostate cancer is the key to saving lives and reducing the risk of a more complicated illness,” Senator Conrad says. “I’m proud to be involved in bringing this service to a location that has the potential for touching thousands of lives.” The free screening will include a blood test that measures prostate-specific antigen (PSA). Men who are screened will receive prostate cancer information, and the results will be mailed to their homes. Trinity Health has for over 15 years held an annual prostate screening, enabling scores of men to find prostate cancers early enough to be successfully treated with minimal side effects. “It’s exciting to be able to offer this service to a much wider population,” says Trinity Health President/CEO Terry Hoff. “We’re very fortunate to have the support of Senator Conrad, who was instrumental in guiding this program.” Prostate cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in American men. In North Dakota some 540 new cases of prostate cancer will be diagnosed this year, according to the American Cancer Society, and an estimated 70 men will die of the disease. That’s a death rate slightly higher than the national average.
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