HEAL:BCCPassport To Health - Part 2: Test and Exams that Check for Cancer

What This Book Is About
Part 1: Keeping Yourself Healthy
Part 2: Tests And Exams That Check For Cancer
Part 3: Caring For Yourself Between Check-Ups
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FOR MEN:
  Prostate Cancer Screening

  • What it checks for: Changes in your prostate and in your blood that might be signs of prostate cancer. The prostate is a sex gland in men located below the bladder.
  • What is done: Your health care provider feels carefully inside your rectum to check your prostatefor any changes. Some blood may be taken from your arm and looked at in a lab.
  • Who should be tested: Men ages 50 and over.
  • How often: Once a year.

FOR YOUR HEALTH
 

Date

When was your last prostate exam?
 

__________
 

When should you have your next prostate exam?

__________


PASSPORT TO HEALTH: A Guide to Staying Well


Health Education and Adult Literacy
HEAL: Breast & Cervical Cancer

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September 2000