Free prostate cancer screenings will be held on Thursday, Sept. 17 and Saturday, Sept. 19 at Downtown Health Plaza, 1200 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive.
The Sept. 17 screening, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., is by appointment only – call 336-716-2255. The Sept. 19 screening, from 7 a.m. to 9 a.m., will be conducted on a walk-in basis. No appointments are necessary.
Screening is recommended for men over age 50 who haven’t had a prostate exam in the last year and men over 40 who are black or have a family history of prostate cancer.
Prostate cancer is the third leading cause of cancer deaths among men, but if detected early, is highly treatable.
The screenings will be conducted by physicians from Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center’s Department of Urology.
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Media Relations Contacts: Karen Richardson, krchrdsn@wfubmc.edu, Bonnie Davis, bdavis@wfubmc.edu or Shannon Koontz, shkoontz@wfubmc.edu, at 336-716-4587.
Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center (www.wfubmc.edu) is an academic health system comprised of North Carolina Baptist Hospital, Brenner Children’s Hospital, Wake Forest University Physicians, and Wake Forest University Health Sciences, which operates the university’s School of Medicine and Piedmont Triad Research Park. The system comprises 1,056 acute care, rehabilitation and long-term care beds and has been ranked as one of “America’s Best Hospitals” by U.S. News & World Report since 1993. Wake Forest Baptist also holds the Gold Seal of Approval™ from the Joint Commission, the nation’s esteemed standards-setting and accrediting body for health care quality. Wake Forest Baptist is ranked 32nd in the nation by America’s Top Doctors for the number of its doctors considered best by their peers. The institution ranks in the top third in funding by the National Institutes of Health and fourth in the Southeast in revenues from its licensed intellectual property.