Prostate Cancer Survivors Step into the Ring to Help Beat Prostate Cancer

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Ryan Touchton Beat Prostate Cancer

I believe it will help other men know that prostate cancer can be beat

Atlanta, GA (PRWEB) December 15, 2010

With odds that 1 in 6 men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer in their lifetime, several prostate cancer survivors have “stepped into the ring” to help educate and inspire other men about this very curable disease.

“Our hope is the videos launched today through a new website called http://www.beatprostatecancer.com will encourage men and their families to learn all they can about prostate cancer, the various treatment options available to them, and the importance of early detection,” says Michael Holton, president and COO of RC Cancer Centers.

Ryan Touchton, one of the cancer survivors featured in the website video agrees, “I hope this site will encourage other men to get their annual prostate screening, which is a simple and easy blood test.”

“For those men, who are diagnosed with prostate cancer, I want them to know they can be cured by a facility with a proven cure rate and people who genuinely care,” said Touchton.

The new website, http://www.beatprostatecancer.com, features video testimonials of prostate cancer survivors and is filmed on location at Decatur Boxing Club in Atlanta, Georgia. All of the men featured in the video were treated with ProstRcision®, which is a unique technique for curing prostate cancer that uses a combination of pinpoint irradiation through seed implant and conformal beam irradiation offered exclusively at RC Cancer Centers.

“I got involved in making this video because I believe it will help other men know that prostate cancer can be beat. They will hear my story and hopefully be inspired to get a simple PSA blood test,” said Rick Toole, an alumnus of RC Cancer Centers who was diagnosed with prostate cancer at the age of 43. “The producer encouraged us to speak from the heart and be authentic, which was incredibly important to me.”

Tool hopes these videos will inspire viewers to ask questions and seek answers from medical experts.

RC Cancer Centers has also partnered with several companies and organizations to support the Georgia Prostate Cancer Coalition in an effort to better educate men about their health choices and raise awareness about prostate cancer in the state of Georgia. The Georgia Prostate Cancer Coalition and RC Cancer Centers, along with the Atlanta Hawks and Atlanta Thrashers, UPS, CR Bard, WXIA Television, Morehouse School of Medicine, KISS 104.1 Radio and WSB Radio have issued a challenge to have 10,000 men in Georgia pledge to have the conversation with their doctors or get screened for prostate cancer between now and April 20, 2011. To learn more about the Georgia Pledge Campaign, visit http://www.GeorgiaProstateCancerPledge.com.

About RC Cancer Centers
Each year thousands of patients from around the world and across the United States turn to RC Cancer Centers seeking a cure for their prostate cancer. Founded in 1979, RC Cancer Centers has earned a reputation for being one of the country’s top cancer treatment and research facilities because of its commitment to quality, use of the latest radiation technology and focus on research that enables it to treat men and women with different types of cancer, including breast, prostate, lung, colon, lymphatic and others. RC Cancer Centers has treated more than 13,000 men for prostate cancer and has compiled its observations of these men, both before and after treatment, into one of the largest computerized databases on prostate cancer in the United States. For more information, visit http://www.rccancercenters.com.

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