A Healthy Gift for Father’s Day
Have you ever considered giving the man in your life a healthy gift for Father’s Day?
A letter recently appeared in the San Bernardino Sun, urging women to talk to the men in their life about getting a prostate specific antigen (PSA) test. The test is a well know measure for prostate cancer, a cancer that will be diagnosed in more than 186,000 men in the U.S. in 2008 and a cancer that, if caught early, has an extremely high cure rate. The letter was submitted by an organization called Women Against Prostate Cancer. This grassroots organization consists of women that have been adversely affected by prostate cancer.
PSA Test as a Gift?
Did you know that there are FDA-approved tests that can be used at home for conducting a PSA test? Home PSA Tests come with everything that is needed to collect a small blood sample on a card and then mail the card to the laboratory. The laboratory will then send the results back to you and you can even make a copy to share with your physician. These test can also be purchased as a gift to the man in your life. When the test arrives in the mail you can be right there to be sure the man in your life takes receives PSA test.
