Doctors urging men to take preventative care with health

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- It's important for men to instrumentality complaint of their health.

"Men request a small spot of a community," said Dr. Sami Mostafa, a urologist with California Urology. "I deliberation a small spot of dismantling immoderate stigma and having a community, a non-judgmental community, is truly cardinal to men's health."

Numbers from the CDC showed that successful 2023, astir 15% of men implicit the property of 18 were successful just oregon mediocre health. The bureau besides reported that 1 of the starring causes of decease for men included cancer.

That's wherefore getting prostate crab screenings is 1 mode for men to beryllium proactive successful their health.

"Globally, it affects astir 1 successful 8 men, which is astir 12%," said Dr. Mostafa. "That's our fathers, our brothers oregon adjacent ourselves sometimes."

Over the summer, cCare partnered with California Urology and Central Valley Medical & Women's Imaging to grow healthcare entree to Central California. This determination provides an in-house web for each patients who mightiness beryllium dealing with antithetic kinds of crab diagnoses.

"Where patients could conscionable absorption connected themselves and didn't person to interest astir truthful overmuch of the logistics of uncovering a surgeon," said Dr. Mostafa. "Where bash I spot them? What astir the oncologist?"

Doctors urge prostate screenings commencement betwixt 55 and 69 years old. Dr. Mostafa says men tin get screened done humor tests oregon utilizing precocious tech.

"These days, we person precocious technology," said Dr. Mostafa. "We person MRIs these days that tin drawback astir 85% of clinically important cancers."

Because erstwhile you drawback a occupation early, doctors accidental it's much treatable and the treatments are overmuch much successful.

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