for their role in raising funds for
state-of-the-art prostate cancer diag-
wstic equipment.
Lutz's consciousness-raising activi-
ties previously included facilitating
"Man to Man," a prostate cancer sup-
port group which meets once or twice
a year at Temple Israel in connection
with the Temple's Caring
Community program. Men, he
agrees, are more apt to turn to the
Internet and fax machine when they
'Want information.
Yet he has found that when he
meets with a support group and asks
quietly, "What were you doing when
you were called with a positive diag-
nosis?", there is total recall. "It is so
poignant," he says. Dr. Isaac "Ike"
Powell of Wayne State University's
Department of Urology, will also be
\ -.?7,
- --nong the guests at the Heritage
Ball. An African American physician
diagnosed with prostate cancer last
year, he has been named one of the
principal investigators for a new fed-
eral study on the significantly higher
prostate cancer death rate among
black men.
Recently, a team of scientists led
by Dr. Robert Burk, professor of epi-
emiology at Albert Einstein College
of Medicine in New York, launched a
study to find environmental and
genetic factors that apply to prostate
cancer among Jewish men. Burk
notes that currently there are no
accurate estimates of any disease in
the Jewish population because med-
ical records do not usually indicate
ligious identities. But, he says, there
is intriguing anecdotal information.
The Yeshiva University-affiliated
CLAL (Cancer, Longevity, Ancestry
and Lifestyle) study will use question-
naires and buccal cell and blood sam-
ples to determine if there are environ-
mental or inherited causes related to
the disease. The Comprehensive
,Cancer Center at Einstein College of
Medicine is presently seeking Jewish
men diagnosed with prostate cancer
at age 65 or younger, or those diag-
nosed at any age with a father, broth-
er, son or uncle who have had the
disease.
Burk says the center will send
questionnaires upon request; the buc-
cal cell sample can be easily obtained
with a simple scraping of the inner
cheek, and the blood sample can be
sent from any doctor's office. The
center will cover mailing costs. For
additional information, call (718)
430-3366.
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