Today is Father's Day.. Happy Father's Day to all the dads out there! Today also brings Men's Health Week 2010 to a conclusion. In honor of Men's Health Week and Dads everywhere, today's post highlights a very important men's health issue. Make sure you click on the blue links to find out more about today's cause.
We are: ZERO - The Project to End Prostate Cancer. We believe in the fire. The fire inside you. Burning to live and to live every day to the fullest. We believe cancer must not extinguish it. Ever! We believe in not just beating cancer, or curing cancer but ending it. And we believe it should not take forever to do it. Everyone has a project. And we believe every man, every loving wife and every caring family member must unite to end this disease.
Prostate Cancer Facts and Statistics:
- Prostate cancer is diagnosed every two minutes and fifteen seconds, and more than 217,730 new cases are expected in 2010. It is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in America among men.
- An estimated 32,050 American men will lose their lives to prostate cancer this year.
- Prostate cancer takes about one life every 18 minutes - In the next 24 hours, prostate cancer will claim the lives of 83 American men.
- One in six American men is at lifetime risk of prostate cancer.
- If a close relative has prostate cancer, a man's risk of the disease more than doubles. With two relatives, his risk increases five times. With three close relatives, his risk is about 97 percent.
- Prostate cancer represents 33 percent of all new cancer cases in American men. That's more new cases than any other cancer.
Get Involved:
Make a Donation.
The Great Prostate Cancer Challange and Dash for Dad invite you to lace up your running shoes and race to raise funds for a cure for Prostate Cancer. There are 14 race sites across the country this year, click here to find an event near you.
Sources: http://www.zerocancer.org/
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