From Reading Hospital Newsroom<\/p>\n
Pictured above: Dr. Timothy Lindsay.<\/p>\n
McGlinn Cancer Institute at Reading Hospital<\/a>\u00a0is offering free prostate and skin cancer screenings in a continued effort to support community health and education. Regular screenings increase the chance of finding cancer early when it\u2019s most treatable.<\/p>\n \u201cThese free screenings give our community the opportunity to take charge of their health,\u201d said\u00a0Dr. Timothy Lindsay, chief, division of hematology & oncology<\/a>.<\/a>\u00a0\u201cIn any instance of cancer, we hope to find it early when outcomes are better and survival rates increase.\u201d<\/p>\n Prostate Cancer ScreeningWhen: Wednesday, Nov. 5, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.Where: McGlinn Cancer Institute Reading Hospital, 420 S. 5th Ave., West Reading\u00a0Registration information: Space is limited, and an appointment is required. Call 1-833-34-TOWER to schedule.<\/p>\n Register for this free prostate screening program if you:<\/p>\n are a man aged 40 to 75.do not have a current diagnosis of prostate cancer.are not under the care of a urologist for a current problem.have not had a prostate exam and PSA within the past year.Skin Cancer ScreeningWhen:\u00a0Tuesday, Nov. 11, from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.Where:\u00a0McGlinn Cancer Institute Reading Hospital, 420 S. 5th Ave., West ReadingRegistration information: Space is limited, and an appointment is required. Call 1-833-34-TOWER to schedule.<\/p>\n Register for this free skin care screening if you:<\/p>\n have a specific area of concern (Patients can have up to three areas of concern to be examined.).have an abnormal skin growth.are not currently under the care of a physician for skin cancer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From Reading Hospital Newsroom Pictured above: Dr. Timothy Lindsay. McGlinn Cancer Institute at Reading Hospital\u00a0is offering free prostate…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13874,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-13873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}