RCOG Completes Successful Atlanta Community Prostate Cancer Screening

RCOG Completes Successful Atlanta Community Prostate Cancer Screening

For one week in January Radiotherapy Clinics of Georgia (rcog. com) and NewsTalk 750 WSB teamed up to promote prostate cancer educational outreach. Called the 'Prostate Proactivity Campaign,' the effort helped screen over 1,700 men throughout metro Atlanta with potential life-saving full prostate cancer screenings at no cost. Atlanta is the home of RCOG, the only source for the ProstRcision cancer treatment procedure. ProstRcision (prostrcision. com) has the highest documented prostate cancer cure rate in the world.

Atlanta, GA (PRWEB) February 9, 2009

Radiotherapy Clinics of Georgia (rcog. com) is proud to announce the successful full prostate screening of over 1,700 men throughout metro Atlanta. Called the "Prostate Proactivity Campaign," the potentially life-saving prostate cancer screening was provided by a joint educational outreach effort by Radiotherapy Clinics of Georgia (RCOG) and NewsTalk 750 WSB.

Combating the Second Leading Cause of Cancer Death in American Men:

According to the American Cancer Society, prostate cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in American men--one in six men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer in his lifetime. If detected early and combined with proper prostate cancer treatment (http://www. prostrcision. com/) the cure rate is nearly 100 percent.

Full Screenings at No Cost:

Mobile testing units were dispatched to Atlanta, Cumming, Snellville, Covington, Buford and Kennesaw during the week with the help of Zero (zerocancer. org). The mobile team provided full prostate screenings, including DRE and PSA tests. PSA tests were sent to the University of Michigan for analysis and the men participating in the screening were notified of the results. In addition to the screenings, information about prostate health (http://www. prostrcision. com/prostate-cancer/) was provided at all locations.

John Critz, Vice President of Marketing for RCOG explains, "We are thrilled with the Atlanta-area's community response to the screenings. Last year we screened just over 1,000 men, and this year to screen over 1,700 speaks to is truly a testament to the growing awareness of the prevalence of prostate cancer. The most important thing we at Radiotherapy Clinics of Georgia want men to know about prostate cancer is that it is highly curable -- If it is detected early, and regular screening is the key to early diagnosis.

Importance of Screenings:

Prostate cancer can be detected through a PSA test. This test is a simple blood test that determines the level of prostate-specific antigen levels in the body. It is recommended men 50 years of age and older are screened annually for prostate cancer. African-American men and men with a family history of prostate cancer are advised to be testing at age 40, as they are at a higher risk to develop prostate cancer. Depending on the results from this test, men may be referred for a biopsy of the prostate.

The Only Source for ProstRcision:

Radiotherapy Clinics of Georgia, based in metro Atlanta, is the only source for ProstRcision. ProstRcision is a prostate cancer radiation therapy (http://www. rcog. com/treatments/) procedure that boasts an 83% overall cure rate using the absolute strictest definition of cure, the highest documented cure rate in the world for prostate cancer. Each year hundreds of patients from across the country and throughout the world travel to Georgia to seeking cure of their prostate cancer by the ProstRcision procedure. ProstRcision is also the preferred treatment method for many men because of the lower incidences of side effects, particularly incontinence and impotence, relative to other treatment procedures.

If you have questions about prostate cancer (http://www. prostrcision. com/qa/), or to learn more about the differences between ProstRcision at Radiotherapy Clinics of Georgia and prostate cancer surgery (http://www. rcog. com/), including robotic radical prostatectomy, visit RCOG. com and ProstRcision. com or call 1-800-952-7687.

About Radiotherapy Clinics of Georgia

Radiotherapy Clinics of Georgia is a Center of Excellence for prostate cancer treatment and research. Each year hundreds of men travel to receive prostate cancer treatment in Atlanta, Georgia (http://www. rcog. com/about/our-facilities. php) from RCOG. RCOG is one of the oldest prostate seed implant programs in the world. The first prostate implant for prostate cancer at RCOG was performed in 1977, and the first patient was treated with the combination therapy now called ProstRcision in 1979. Dr. Frank Critz, founder and medical director of RCOG, developed the ProstRcision procedure and has treated more than 8,000 patients with the disease in the past 25 years. RCOG is the only source for ProstRcision, in which two forms of radiation therapy are used to destroy the prostate gland. To date, nearly 12,000 men have received treatment with ProstRcision at RCOG's seven Metro Atlanta clinics. To learn more, please visit rcog. com.

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BridgeHead Software and Young Minds Collaborate to Deliver Compliant DVD Archiving Solution for Long-term Data Retention

BridgeHead Software and Young Minds Collaborate to Deliver Compliant DVD Archiving Solution for Long-term Data Retention

Woburn, MA (PRWEB) August 26, 2006

USA-based Young Minds, Inc. (YMi) and BridgeHead Software today announced that BridgeHead’s suite of compliance-enabling storage management and data protection solutions has been integrated with YMi’s DVD-based Recording and Library product portfolio.

YMi provides a complete line of data storage and archiving hardware solutions based on CD and DVD recording, while BridgeHead‘s multi-platform software solutions are designed for archive, enterprise backup, media management and disaster recovery. Both companies’ solutions are optimized for mid - to large - organizations.

The objective of the collaboration was to integrate BridgeHead’s advanced policy-driven archive software with YMi’s archive hardware, resulting in a physically-robust archive solution that enables customers to comply easily with current data retention regulations and legislation.

Available through YMi’s master distributor Data Assurance, the combined solution will provide highly functional solutions for corporate customers and new opportunities for resellers to deploy ‘compliant archive’ solutions that are already integrated with storage management and Information Lifecycle Management functions.

There are significant benefits from the successful combination of DVD recordable (DVD-R/+R) media and BridgeHead’s Integrated Storage Management (ISM) software portfolio:

 BridgeHead solutions employ a proactive, policy-based approach, identifying data that meet the conditions of a given archive policy and automatically migrating it to secondary storage.  YMi’s hardware delivers solutions that are reliable, scalable, cost-effective and easy to use. DVD media will be readable for decades.  Metadata and text indexing ensures an archive is fully searchable making the archive both useful and compliant. BridgeHead’s HT FileStore holds the all-important archive store metadata in its own database, which can itself be backed up and replicated to protect it. Unlike ‘stubbing’ techniques, this means that the stubs are not vulnerable to loss of the server on which the stubs reside.  There is no vendor lock-in, and data may be replicated to other media as required.  The ‘removable’ characteristic of DVD archive media and YMi’s standards compliance also makes DVD particularly effective as part of a wider disaster recovery strategy. It is ideal in hostile environments such as heat, cold, sand or damp, where other media such as disk or tape are vulnerable to rapid physical degradation.

Bob Levine of Data Assurance, which will distribute the solutions, said: “BridgeHead and YMi develop solutions for the same high-end customers, and the technologies are highly complimentary. The successful integration of the two elements enables us to provide more complete, turn-key solutions to both VARs and corporate end-users.”

Andrew Young, chairman and co-founder of Young Minds Inc., said: “YMi’s core strength is its technology: the physical attributes of the solutions, their reliability and cost-efficiency. Today’s announcement describes an integration with software that has similar attributes, resulting in a powerful solution for all our customers.”

Tony Cotterill, CEO at BridgeHead Software, said: “One of the big selling points for this solution will be its rapid return on investment, which is important for companies of any size. And, since both our software and YMi’s hardware adhere to international standards in force, customers can enjoy extra confidence in the resilience of the overall integration.”

Press contacts

Rose Ross / Hannah Knowles

Omarketing Limited

(for BridgeHead Software)

T: +1.781-939-0780 ext. 263

Heidi Groshelle

(for BridgeHead Software)

T: +1.415-563-1893

About Young Minds (www. ymi. com)

Founded in 1989, Young Minds, Inc. (YMi) provides a complete line of data storage and archiving solutions that utilize CD and DVD recording. YMi pioneered CD-Recording and CD-ROM mass storage in the UNIX market, and continues to deliver the most innovative solutions that are reliable, cost-effective and easy to use. Andrew Young, Chairman and co-founder of the company, authored the Rock Ridge Interchange Protocols, which define additional functionality for ISO 9660 standard discs used in UNIX environments.

About Data Assurance (www. data-a. com)

Data Assurance provides tools that increase efficiency and lower costs for accessing, storing, and distributing data. As the master distributor of Young Minds products, Data Assurance provides a broad portfolio of industry-leading data storage solutions. Major markets for Data Assurance include banking, defense, aerospace, and healthcare.

About BridgeHead Software (www. BridgeHeadSoftware. com)

BridgeHead Software is a software development company with a total focus on integrated storage management software.

Over the past 12 years, BridgeHead’s technology has helped IT organizations leverage their investment in applications and underlying storage from leading vendors. BridgeHead Software’s Integrated Storage Management suite of products provides backup, archive, migration, replication, storage media management and disaster recovery for files, email, images and structured data. BridgeHead has an established worldwide customer base and a growing international distribution network that provides sales, support, training and consulting services to major markets worldwide.

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