Product Description

Part of the award winning public television series Healthy Body/Healthy Mind. Are you a man age 40 or older and haven't had a PSA test for Prostate Cancer? Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men, after skin cancer. It is estimated that approximately 230,110 men in the United States will be diagnosed with the disease this year, and about 30,000 men will die from it. PSA or Prostate Specific Antigen is a simple blood test that can save your life. In this episode, patients and doctors explain what the PSA test is and how it can be used to identify cancer at its earliest stage. Remember, no man should die from Prostate Cancer. Watch this program and get the facts.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #132665 in DVD
• Released on: 2006-07-27
• Format: NTSC

Customer Reviews

a quick introduction to an important topic
I had heard that men need to get PSA tests starting at the age of 50, but this work says they should start at 40. The work is filled with doctors and everyday grandfathers speaking about prostate cancer. The tacit message is "If you don't get checked for yourself, do it for your wife, children, and grandchildren."

I am an African-American male and I think the coverage of African-American males could have been better. The work does state that Black men should get tested 5 years before other men. Still, there were no testimonies from African-American prostate patients. The work had an African-American reporter in it, but he wasn't speaking as an interested party. Plus, he looked 20 years old and was given a bad gray die job to make him look older. Basically, this work gives European-American viewers men with which to identify, but it fails to provide the same thing for Black men.

The work begins and stresses PSA tests, then at the last second, it says a digital-rectal exam will be needed too. One doctor calls it "the dreaded digital-rectal exam." However, it is never spelled out why this procedure is "dreaded" and why men need to get over their "dread." Though the work is informative, it speeds past an important topic and thus renders the topic "nefarious" when it should have been aimed at the opposite goal.