Fact Sheets

• "Facts About Prostate Cancer" (Michigan Department of Community Health fact sheet; February 2008 revision) (available as an Adobe Acrobat PDF file)*

• "September — Prostate Cancer Awareness Month" (Michigan Department of Community Health fact sheet; September 2007 revision) (available as an Adobe Acrobat PDF file)*

• "Prostate Cancer in Michigan: Improving the Quality of Life for Prostate Cancer Survivors" (Michigan Department of Community Health fact sheet; January 2007) (available as an Adobe Acrobat PDF file)*

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Educational Materials

• Prostate Cancer Screening: A Decision Guide
  www.cdc.gov/cancer/prostate/publications/decisionguide/ Developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, this guide discusses the prostate, prostate cancer, and screening tests in an easy-to-read question and answer format. The guide is designed to help men decide whether screening is right for them. To order the guide, visit http://webapp.cdc.gov/IXPRESS/PUBSPROD/DCPC+
  BOOK/DCPC1.DML#prostate.

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• Prostate Cancer Screening: A Decision Guide for African Americans
  www.cdc.gov/cancer/prostate/publications/aadecisionguide
  Developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), this guide discusses the prostate, prostate cancer, and screening tests in an easy-to-read question and answer format. The guide is designed to help African American men decide whether screening is right for them. To order the guide, visit http://webapp.cdc.gov/IXPRESS/PUBSPROD/DCPC+
  BOOK/DCPC1.DML#prostate (CDC) or www.hpclearinghouse.org/showoneitem.cfm?
  InvCode=C113b (Michigan Health Promotions Clearinghouse).

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• Understanding Prostate Changes: A Health Guide for Men
  www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/understanding-prostate-changes
  The National Cancer Institute (NCI) has developed this booklet to help patients understand prostate cancer screening results and explain important next steps in testing and diagnosis when screening results are abnormal. To order free copies of this booklet, phone the NCI toll-free at 800-4-CANCER or visit https://cissecure.nci.nih.gov/ncipubs/details.asp?pid=148.

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• Inside Cancer Internet Site
  http://insidecancer.org
  This award-winning Web site, operated by the Dolan DNA Learning Center at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, offers users a multimedia guide to cancer biology. Through animations and expert interviews, visitors learn the hallmarks of cancer, cancer causes and prevention, cancer diagnosis and treatment, and cancer pathways. The site was produced by a grant from the National Center for Research Resources, a component of the National Institutes of Health.

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Other Resources

• MCC Prostate Cancer Patient Educational Materials and Web Site (www.prostatecancerdecision.org) -- The MCC Prostate Cancer Action Committee operates this site to help inform early prostate cancer patients. The site includes an easy-to-navigate Web version of the MCC booklet Making the Choice: Deciding What to Do About Early Stage Prostate Cancer, as well as an interactive tool that enables patients to determine five-year survival rates using their prostate specific antigen (PSA) test results, tumor state, and grade. Web site visitors can download an Adobe Acrobat PDF English- , Spanish- , or Arabic-language version of the Making the Choice booklet, or they can order it in a color-printed format or as an audio set containing one CD and one cassette.

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• Prostate Health Awareness Month resources available through the Michigan Cancer Consortium Monthly Theme Calendar (Note: Prostate Health Awareness Month is observed in September.)

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• National Cancer Institute — "Cancer Risk: Understanding the Puzzle" Web Site
  http://understandingrisk.cancer.gov
  This site offers a reliable source for individuals and healthcare providers who are seeking: risk information for six common cancer types (breast, cervical, colorectal, lung, prostate, and skin); steps to reduce an individual's risk; tips for understanding cancer news stories; and tools an individual can use with his/her provider to manage his/her cancer risk.

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last updated: 02/19/08

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