Discarding fear of any homophobic connotation, some 348 men from St James turned out for prostate cancer screening at what the Rotary Club of Montego Bay East and the Jamaica Cancer Society have tagged an 'oversubscribed' event.
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| President of the Rotary Club of Montego Bay East, Dale Davis (right), assisting partially blind Godfrey Downer, who came for the second year to be tested during the prostate cancer screening, while others waited in line to get their checks |
This figure is a whopping 250 per cent increase over 2012. The organisers expected to reach at least 200 men this year, 90 more than were screened last year.
The men, aged between 40 and 65 years old, flooded the Montego Bay Civic Centre recently, allowing a full team of female urologists from the Cornwall Regional Hospital and other medical facilities in the region to carry out digital rectal examinations and prostate-specific antigen (PSA) on them.
The tests were done free of cost. read more
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