Free Prostate Screenings

SUNY Downstate Medical Center Offering Free Prostate Screenings September 17 – September 22:

Screenings to Be Held at SUNY Downstate Sites throughout Brooklyn

Prostate cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in American men, but with early detection and treatment the five-year survival rate exceeds 99 percent. SUNY Downstate Medical Center’s University Hospital of Brooklyn (UHB) is urging men between the ages of 40 and 75 to take advantage of free cancer screenings September 17 to 22 at various UHB sites throughout the borough.

For more information call 718-270-3739 or 718-270-8846, or the numbers listed below. 
 
Screenings will be held at Downstate at Long Island College Hospital, 97 Amity Street, Family Medicine Suite, 4th floor, Tuesday, September 18; Thursday, September 20; and Friday, September 21, from 4:00 pm to 7:00 pm. For more information call 718-780-2860.

Other sites are:

SUNY Downstate’s UHB at Central Brooklyn, 470 Clarkson Avenue, Suite I (“eye”), Monday, September 17, through Thursday, September 20, from 4:00 pm to 7:00 pm.

UHB’s Family Health Services at 840 Lefferts Avenue, Monday, September 17, from 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm and Wednesday, September 19, from 10:00 am to 3:00 pm. For more information call 718-493-0300.

The Center for Health Care Services at Bedford-Stuyvesant, 613 Throop Avenue, Tuesday, September 18, and Thursday, September 20, from 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm. Call 718-602-6200.

SUNY Downstate at Bay Ridge, 699 92nd Street at Seventh Avenue, holds screenings for prostate cancer on an ongoing basis Monday through Saturday from 10:00 am to 8:00 pm. For more information, call 718-567-1400 or 718-270-3739.   

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