Monmouth Medical Center & Monmouth Medical Center, Southern Campus to Host Free Prostate Cancer Screening and Awareness Event

According to the National Cancer Institute, prostate cancer is the most frequently diagnosed cancer in men, other than skin cancer. In 2015 alone, there were nearly 28,000 prostate cancer deaths in the United States and an estimated 270,000 worldwide.

Monmouth Medical Center and Monmouth Medical Center, Southern Campus will team up with the Lakewood BlueClaws and Ed Randall’s Fans for the Cure to raise awareness of this deadly disease and provide free, simple prostate-specific antigen (PSA) blood tests on Tuesday, August 30 from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. when the BlueClaws take on the Kannapolis Intimidators at First Energy Park in Lakewood.

Representatives from the Laboratory at Monmouth Medical Center and Monmouth Medical Center, Southern Campus will be on hand during the game to provide PSA screenings, supported by a charitable contribution from Ferring Pharmaceuticals, Inc. PSA is a protein produced by cells of the prostate gland, and the PSA test measures the level of PSA in a man's blood. Additionally, Monmouth Medical Center urologist Pierre Mendoza, M.D., will be on hand to answer questions about prostate cancer.

Fans for the Cure, a national organization that seeks to save lives and preserve the quality of men’s lives by promoting the importance of identifying prostate cancer in its earliest stages, joins Monmouth Medical Center and Monmouth Medical Center, Southern Campus in encouraging all men over 40 to speak with their doctors about prostate cancer, especially those whose family histories and/or race/ethnicity indicate increased risk factors for the disease. Early baseline and follow-up PSA blood tests often lead to both early detection and a greater range of non-invasive treatment options.

For more information about Monmouth Medical Center, call 732.222.5200 or visit www.barnabashealth.org/Monmouth-Medical-Center.

About Monmouth Medical Center

Located in Long Branch, N.J., Monmouth Medical Center, an RWJBarnabas Health facility, along with The Unterberg Children’s Hospital at Monmouth Medical Center, is one of New Jersey's largest academic medical centers and has been a teaching affiliate of Philadelphia’s Drexel University College of Medicine for more than 40 years. From its earliest days, Monmouth Medical Center has been a leader in surgical advancement and has introduced many technological firsts to the region, including robotic surgery and other minimally invasive techniques. U.S. News & World Report has recognized Monmouth as a regional leader in cancer, geriatrics, gynecology, neurology and neurosurgery. Monmouth Medical Center is the only hospital in Monmouth and Ocean counties to receive an “A” Hospital Safety Score by The Leapfrog Group, an independent national nonprofit organization of employer purchasers of health care and the nation’s leading experts on patient safety.