To Screen or not to Screen?
Our very own past president (PP) Stanley Gordon addressed the club on Prostate Cancer Screening. He stated that the Rotary Clubs of Tortola would host a prostate cancer screening event during the first week of May 2010. For this event, doctors from the United States would visit the BVI and work closely with Rotary to co-ordinate the screenings.
Whilst PP Stanley urged that screenings should occur every year for men over 45 and every six months for much older men, PP Elton Georges inquired about recent studies, which seemed to contradict the wisdom of frequent screening.
PP Stanley then advised the club that May 2010, would be the opportunity, also, to receive updated information within the medical field pertaining to prostate cancer and screenings.