Biden is among thousands to get prostate cancer this year. Where to get tested in NC

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Biden is among thousands to get prostate ******* this year. Where to get tested in NC

Former President Joe Biden’s Stage 4 prostate ******* diagnosis served as a reminder of the importance of ******* screenings.

Prostate ******* is the second leading cause of natural deaths among North Carolina men, behind lung *******,

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The prostate is a ****** that lies between a male’s bladder and ******* and is part of his reproductive anatomy.

Biden’s team announced his diagnosis Sunday afternoon, saying that he had an increase in ******** symptoms which led to the finding of a prostate nodule. Biden’s team said his form of prostate ******* is aggressive and has spread into his bones.

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more than 180,000 men will be diagnosed with prostate ******* this year, and around 40,000 will die from it. But if caught early,

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that almost all men with this diagnosis can live five or more years. That drops to 34% once it spreads.

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where men can go to get screened for prostate ******* within a 50-mile radius of Raleigh. All seven also offer screenings for cervical, lung, breast and colorectal cancers.

Those include:

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Call the American ******* Society at 800-227-2345 or use the chat feature on the group’s website,

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, to find out about options for potentially free screenings.

A 2021 study by the

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found that only 52% of men in North Carolina were screened for prostate *******.

Symptom free

More than 8,000 men in North Carolina were diagnosed with prostate ******* in 2021. Among them was Sen. Thom Tillis, a Republican from Huntersville. In March 2021, he

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he would undergo surgery after being diagnosed with prostate *******. Tillis said he didn’t have any symptoms.

“I am blessed that my ******* was detected relatively early, and I can’t emphasize enough how important routine screenings are, regardless of how healthy you think you are,” Tillis said then. “I had no symptoms and would have never imagined I had *******. My prognosis is good because I went to my annual physical and received a PSA test, which led to a biopsy and eventually my diagnosis. Early detection can truly save lives.”

Tillis was among

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to Biden’s news Sunday, posting on social media that he and his wife Susan “are saddened to hear about President Biden’s prostate ******* diagnosis and are praying for his full recovery.”

Annual physicals

UNC encourages all men between 19 and 49 to receive physicals at least every two years, and an annual physical after 50. Even if a patient is healthy, the routine screenings give doctors a patient’s baseline for blood pressure, cholesterol, weight and other things so that if something does go awry, a doctor knows what is normal for that individual.

Between 50 and 69, but as early as 40, a prostate screening is done annually to ensure that a patient remains healthy. After 69, doctors will work with their patients individually to determine if a prostate exam is still necessary.

Biden is 82.

Prostate ******* is most common in ****** men or those with a family history, especially with a father or brother who was diagnosed.

Prostate exams

In February, state Rep. Rodney Pierce, a Democrat from Halifax County,

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to fund free or low-cost prostate screenings and follow-up care to uninsured or underinsured men in North Carolina.

That same month, in Congress,

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requiring insurance companies to cover screenings without imposing any cost-sharing requirements on men at high risk of prostate *******.

A prostate exam can include a prostate-specific antigen blood test, a digital rectal exam and a biopsy.

Murphy, a urologist, encouraged men to ensure their doctor don’t stop at the PSA blood test, but also conduct a rectal exam to catch potential signs of ******* the blood test might miss.

“A man with a ‘below normal’ PSA can still have prostate *******,”

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. “This is why a rectal examination by your physician must ALSO be done. Unfortunately, some doctors are forgoing critical examination and relying only on the blood test. Make sure your doctor does both.”

Biden received an outpouring of support from lawmakers, including Democrats and Republicans in North Carolina, who wished him a speedy recovery.

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