NEWS ADVISORY
Media Contact: Kate Lagreca
BOSTON HISPANIC COMMUNITY TO LEARN ABOUT DISPROPORTINATE RISKS AND IMPACT OF
PROSTATE CANCER
AdMeTech Foundation joins León de Judá Congregation at Sunday Services to Educate, Offer Counseling
BOSTON, MA, September 17, 2015—Dr. Roberto Miranda, Senior Pastor of the Congregation León de Judá and Founder of the Fellowship of Hispanic Pastors of New England, in partnership with Dr. Faina Shtern, President and CEO of AdMeTech Foundation, will be hosting prostate cancer educational sessions that will be integrated into church services on Sunday, September 20. The goal of this effort is to inform and mobilize León de Judá parishioners in a fight against the high risk and high death toll of prostate cancer in the Boston Hispanic community.
State Representative and Chair of the Health Care Finance Committee Jeffrey Sánchez, Boston Health and Human Services Chief Felix G. Arroyo, Register of Probate Felix D. Arroyo and Alberto Vasallo, III, President and CEO of El Mundo, will help the León de Judá Congregation and AdMeTech combat prostate cancer as a health care disparity in Boston’s Hispanic community during this Family Health Day event.
In Boston, prostate cancer mortality for Hispanic men is 40 percent higher than the state average. According to the American Cancer Society, compliance with prostate cancer screening is lowest in Hispanic men. Nationwide, just 24 percent of Hispanic men aged 50 and older are screened for the disease, while 44 percent of white men are screened. Screening is the only access to early detection of prostate cancer, which is critical for saving lives.
Dr. Shtern and Dr. Adam Feldman, a prostate cancer specialist at Massachusetts General Hospital, will speak during the plenary session. They will be also joined by physicians from Harvard Medical School for individual, family, and group counseling on screening, diagnosis, and treatment offered to any interested men on a first come, first served basis on Sunday after each service.
This event is part of AdMeTech’s push to spread knowledge during September, which is National Prostate Cancer Awareness Month. The non-profit’s goal is to create a Massachusetts model of national leadership in prostate cancer education and awareness by bringing cutting-edge advances in prostate cancer care from Massachusetts world-leading hospitals to every man, with the focus on the individuals at high risk, their caregivers and doctors.
Organizers and speakers will be available for media interviews from 10:45 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. and from 1:45 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.
WHAT: Family Health Day: Prostate Cancer Educational Sessions and Individual, Family and Group Consultations
WHEN: Sunday, September 20
Morning Services start at 9 a.m., with a plenary educational session between 9:45 a.m. and 10:20 am. This will be followed by a group Q&A session
at 11:30 a.m., and then individual counseling with doctors from 12:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Afternoon Services start at 12 p.m., with a plenary educational session between 12:45 p.m. and 1:20 p.m. This will be followed by a group Q&A
session at 2:30 p.m., and then individual and family consolations with doctors from 3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
WHERE: Congregation León de Judá, 20 Reed St., Boston, MA
WHO: Dr. Roberto Miranda, Senior Pastor of the Congregation León de Judá
Dr. Faina Shtern, President and CEO of AdMeTech Foundation
State Representative Jeffrey Sánchez
Felix G. Arroyo, Boston Health and Human Services Chief
Felix D. Arroyo, Register of Probate
Alberto Vasallo III, President and CEO of El Mundo
Dr. Adam Feldman, Director of Urologic Oncology Fellowship, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Juan Cofield, NAACP New England Area Conference President
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