![]() ![]() The mission of Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center is to understand, prevent and cure cancer. Register online at /onegoal or call 1-800-ROSWELL (1-80). Also participating in the event will be two educational partners, Men Allied for the Need to Understand Prostate Cancer (MAN UP) and the “Us Too” Prostate Cancer Support Group.įree parking is available at the First Niagara Center ramp. Screening only takes a few minutes, and attendees will also have the opportunity to learn about cancer risk and early detection from Roswell Park experts. So it’s important that men get screened so that any aggressive prostate cancers can be detected early and treated.”Įligible men - those age 50 and over or others who are at least 40 and are at higher risk because of their race and/or family history of prostate cancer - will have the opportunity to get tested for prostate cancer by Roswell Park physicians. “There’s been a lot of confusion about PSA testing, but the facts boil down to this: Not all prostate cancers need to be treated, but we need to find those that could be life-threatening. “This screening event is geared toward men who have never had a prostate exam or PSA test and those at high risk because they are African-American or have close male relatives who’ve had prostate cancer,” says James Mohler, MD, Chair of the Department of Urology and Professor of Oncology at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, and also Chair of the NCCN’s Prostate Cancer Guidelines Committee. ![]() PSA testing is currently the only proven method of monitoring prostate cancers to identify those tumors that are life-threatening - and those cancers that will not require treatment. ![]() By the time they reach 50 about half of American men will have cancerous prostate cells in their prostate, but the vast majority of those cancers can safely go untreated. Roswell Park follows the guidelines of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN), which recommends baseline PSA screening for all men at age 50 for men at normal risk of developing the disease, and earlier for those at high risk. Fellow Sabres alumni Marty Biron, Craig Rivet and Rob Ray are also expected at the event. James, the author of “Black Ice: The Val James Story,” played five seasons for the Rochester Americans and suited up for the Sabres for 10 games in 1981-82. Val James, Sabres AlumnusĪttendees will get a chance to tour the team’s locker room and to meet Sabres alumni including Val James, the first American-born black man to play in the National Hockey League. The March 24 screening event, the first to be held as part of the One Team, One Goal: Together to Beat Cancer campaign, is part of a broader effort to reduce cancer’s impact among the team’s fans. Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center and the Buffalo Sabres are partnering to offer free prostate cancer screening for eligible men. Season-ticket holders will get the first shot at tickets for Chicago’s New Year’s Day outdoor game against Detroit at Wrigley Field, NHL commissioner Gary Bettman said.Įlsewhere in the NHL – Buffalo defenseman Craig Rivet underwent arthroscopic knee surgery and will miss two weeks.BUFFALO, N.Y. ![]() Patrick Sharp, Aaron Johnson and Brent Seabrook scored. Louis before a game against Los Angeles.īlackhawks 3, Oilers 0 – Nikolai Khabibulin made 23 saves for Chicago in a blanking of visiting Edmonton. Vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin will drop the ceremonial first puck tomorrow night in St. The Blues’ Keith Tkachuk, Brad Boyes and T.J. Henrik Zetterberg, Nicklas Lidstrom and Johan Franzen also scored for the Red Wings. Red Wings 4, Blues 3 – Tomas Holmstrom scored for the fourth straight game as Detroit beat St. Defenseman Filip Kuba helped set up Alfredsson’s goal to extend his assists and points streaks to six games. Panthers 3, Senators 1 – Rostislav Olesz and Nathan Horton scored goals 48 seconds apart in the first period, Cory Stillman also scored, Craig Anderson made 41 saves and Florida topped host Ottawa.ĭaniel Alfredsson scored a power-play goal in the second for the Senators. ![]()
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