The last day of Prostate Cancer Awareness Month

Just goes to show how much that is promoted. This was the first I heard it was. It seems during breast awareness month with all the runs walks ribbons, it can’t be missefd.

Very cool, Brian. 😎

I was one of the millions that got caught up in the USPSTF about face on PSA screening back in 2012. PCP's stopped ordering PSA testing and insurance companies stopped paying for routine screening. Ignored it for years especially after my wife got lung cancer. Stage IVB now indicates that was a big mistake.

@wheel1
Same here ! Never heard about PC awareness month ... There was general cancer fundraiser at the end of August here in San Jose and both of my daughters participated in that "run".
It was really well organized and fun event with music and light show etc. 😎 Ton of young people <3.

@surftohealth88
Little late for some of us, like your husband, but it does appear more awareness needs to be made of the awareness for everyone in the future to be made aware. I think that was a word salad.

@mjp0512 Being initially diagnosed with localized, low-grade prostate cancer in April 2012, I wasn’t subject to those 2012 USPSTF screening guidelines (https://www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/prostate-cancer-screening-2012).

However, in the years leading up to that, my workplace insurance would only cover PSA screening tests every other year. I recall on two occasions I paid the $20 out-of-pocket; I figured it was a worthwhile investment in myself.

I’m aware September is PCa awareness month, but I can’t remember how I found out. I did get me a little blue ribbon sticker for the car window, and I blab to anyone who’ll listen about PCa. I also noticed that some online news aggregators, like Google News, their Health section featured more PCa stories this month.

@brianjarvis - we’re kinda, sorta neighbors. I’m in Beavercreek for one reason or another fairly frequently. I live just down the road a ways near Wilmington. Fancy that.

Prostate cancer is largely if not completely ignored. You don't see any large companies sponsoring events to raise money, for example. Hell, my state has a breast cancer license plate option.

There are a handful of states that offer a PCa-themed license plate as well - my home state of Ohio is one, and part of the additional fee to have it goes to research.

I think once a person knows where to look for it, there are PCa awareness things out there to find, likes walks and other fundraising events, but yeah, they don’t get the publicity that some other kinds of cancer get. That’s why I like it when celebrities come forward with their PCa stories…it helps raise awareness.

@tbgb50 No company (large or small) sponsors events and no state sponsors license plates (purely out of altruism) without some individual or group having advocated for it.

Yes, there are prostate cancer advocacy groups - Zero, PCRI, PCF, AnCan, ASPI, and others - but, they pale in size and resources in comparison to breast cancer support groups, because men (and women) don’t contribute to prostate cancer support groups like they do to breast cancer support groups.

Your state having a breast cancer license plate option is due to someone advocating for it. My state (Ohio) has a prostate cancer license plate option because a woman and her husband advocated for it.

@turtbean Wilmington is not that far away; I’ve been through there a few times.

We’re fortunate to have a few in-person prostate cancer support groups here that meet monthly. Two of them are run out of Miami Valley Hospital (MVH), and the other meets at Wright-Patterson AFB. (As a veteran, I can get on Base for those.)

If you can get up this way, the closest one to you is at MVH South Campus. Their next meeting is October 15 @ 6:00PM. (If you use the main entrance at MVH South, when you enter the building, go to the right. Take a left after the second elevators and Cancer Center Room B will be on your left.)